-- Introduction: Developments in European Security / Maria O'Neill, Sarah Léonard, Christian Kaunert -- Research Articles -- The European Union as a Comprehensive Police Actor / Stephen Anthony Rozée -- The EU Legal Framework on Trafficking in Human Beings: Where to from here – the UK Perspective / Maria Catherine O'Neill -- Policing the EU’s External Borders: A Challenge for the Rule of Law and Fundamental Rights in the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice? An Analysis of Frontex Joint Operations at the Southern Maritime Border / Luisa Marin -- The Adoption of 'Targeted Sanctions' and the Potential for Inter-institutional Litigation after Lisbon / Peter Van Elsuwege -- Guarding EU-wide Counter-terrorism Policing: The Struggle for Sound Parliamentary Scrutiny of Europol / Claudia Hillebrand -- On 'a Continuum with Expansion'? Intelligence Cooperation in Europe in the Early Twenty-first Century / Adam D.M. Svendsen -- Contracting out Support Services in Future Expeditionary Operations: Learning from the Afghan Experience / Christopher Kinsey, Mark Erbel -- Book Reviews -- Rees, W. (2011) The US-EU Security Relationship / Alrik Thiem -- Triantaphyllou, D., ed. (2010) The Security Context in the Black Sea Region / Scott N. Romaniuk -- E. Gross and Ana E. Juncos, eds (2011) EU Conflict Prevention and Crisis Management: Roles, Institutions and Policies / Daniela Irrera -- D. Ó Beacháin and A. Polese, eds (2010) The Colour Revolutions in the Former Soviet Republics: Successes and Failures / Ramin Shafagatov -- Wylie, G. and McRedmond, P., eds (2010) Human Trafficking in Europe: Character, Causes and Consequences / Scott N. Romaniuk