Rees's book will be an important contribution to the emerging field that fills the intellectual and scholarly gap between traditional international relations, national security studies of the Cold War era and the nascent field of international criminology and criminal justice. Rees's book is highly readable account of the workings of international regimes well grounded in the history of Europe. It is must-reading for anyone attempting to judge the part that international cooperation plays in making the world, especially the Western world, safer from international terrorist attacks. Professor William McDonald, Georgetown University, USA   This book fills a gap. Since 9/11 the fight against international terrorism has become one of the most salient issues of EU-US relations. Wyn Rees makes a highly innovative and substantial contribution to the understanding of the complex political, institutional and legal aspects of transatlantic cooperation in this domain. Professor Jörg Monar, Robert Schuman University, France and the Sussex European Institute, UK   Wyn Rees is to be congratulated on this ground-breaking new research monograph. This impressively researched account of the rapid post-9/11 development of transatlantic cooperation in the field of counter-terrorism is informed by a clear understanding of the context and history of the wider transatlantic security relationship.

This book is a substantial, measured and scholarly contribution to a subject area which is, too often, over-hyped and under-researched. Professor David Allen, Loughborough University, UK.