Schilde in CSM on ISIS Attack on German Train
Kaija Schilde, Assistant Professor of International Relations at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, was recently interviewed about an ISIS attack in the Würzburg, Germany in which five people were wounded.
Schilde was quoted in the July 19, 2016 article in the Christian Science Monitor, entitled “ISIS-Claimed German Attack Presents Yet Another Test for Asylum Policies,” and said the attack could affect border controls across the European Union.
From the text of the article:
Kaija Schilde, a professor at Boston University’s Pardee School of Global Studies who studies EU security and migration policy, thinks the attack in Würzburg could lead to tighter controls on borders across the Union.
“Germany can’t control who comes. It can only control who stays,” she tells the Monitor. “That’s the elephant in the room.”
Dr. Schilde says that instead of piling on controls on Europe’s borders, EU member countries should cooperate more on security and intelligence. Right now, “they have to be draconian at borders because they lack an internal coordinating body for security.”
Schilde’s research interests involve European and transatlantic security, the political economy of defense and security markets and industries, EU lobbies and interest groups, and the role of private nonstate actors in national and international security. Learn more about her here.