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This paper examines the EU's efforts to increase coordination between its diplomats and home affairs specialists - who deal with such issues as border management, migration, asylum, crime-fighting and counter-terrorism - as well as some of the key challenges facing EU home affairs policy. More specifically, the authors discuss 1) the significance EU home affairs coordination has for the international order; 2) the key external challenges facing EU home affairs policy, with a particular focus on the Union's surrounding regions; 3) the global matters the EU's home affairs policy concentrates on as well as some of the main problems of this policy; and 4) what approaches the EU can adopt to deal with the external challenges it faces.