ABSTRACT
Since the terrorist attacks in the United States, Spain and the United Kingdom, internal security and police cooperation has taken on an increasingly international component (Bensahel, 2003; De Goede, 2008; Keohane, 2008; Mohan and Mawdsley, 2007). And this international effort has included a number of heated transatlantic disputes (e.g. information surveillance, biometric passports, extreme rendition), which have pitted security concerns against civil liberties, most notably privacy (Aldrich, 2004). A set of transnational civil liberties issues have emerged whereby citizens are held simultaneously accountable to domestic security operations in multiple jurisdictions. This has important economic consequences for businesses such as airlines or telecommunications, which operate in the transatlantic space, and at the same time creates new challenges for individuals as they attempt to protect their basic rights (Andreas, 2004). In addition, the failure to resolve these disputes threatens future transatlantic
cooperation on anti-terrorism (Archick, 2006; Dalgaard-Nielsen and Hamilton, 2006).
