Scandamis Nicholas

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• Democratic Governance in a Market Society: Socializing Security in the European Union

  1 July 2008
  A vast topic like this certainly needs to be delineated right at the outset mainly in terms of the task pursued. Indeed, democracy is a concept with a long history and today it shapes itself at many different levels. Unavoidably it must be approached through its essence, the forceful idea which keeps it alive and makes it still today a polemic concept. Its fundamental imprecision needs to be handled cautiously in view also of the difficulties arising from the peculiarities of the context of what is known to be European governance; a stand which makes problematic the very use of the word democracy

• Rival Freedoms in terms of security: The case of data protection and the criterion of connexity

  22 October 2007
  The research conducted in the framework of the CHALLENGE programme, has investigated a variety of aspects of the problematique surrounding the relationship between liberty and security. The tensions involved in this relationship could also be argued to exist as far as the relationship among freedoms themselves is concerned: the notion of Rival Freedoms represents a significant aspect of the paradigm of European Governance as a liberal regime.

• Workshop Report : The individual between micro-security and macrο- security in European governance

  29 May 2007
  The European Union, representative of a new type of federalism, not restricted to the economic field but also having a political dimension, is based both on the concept of fundamental rights which introduce the respect of the person in his interactions with other persons of a community as well as on the concept of European culture.

• Seminar : Global Growth and Security- A Corporate Perspective

  26 February 2007
  On the 15th of February 2007 a seminar with the theme «Global Growth and Security- A Corporate Perspective» was held at the «Kostis Palamas» Hall of the University of Athens. Guest speaker was Mr. Benoit Monsaingeon, economist and director of BNP Paribas bank.

• Challenge Conference Minutes : «Freedom, Equality and Exception in Market Economies»

  15 January 2007
  On the 9th of November 2006, the University of Athens (WP 12) organized a conference titled «Freedom, Equality and Exception in Market Economies» with the participation of the University of Rouen (WP 11), the University of Keele and King’s College London (WP 1), and the Sciences-Po Paris (WP 2). The Conference was held at the «Ioannis Drakopoulos Hall» on the premises of the University of Athens.

• Challenge Conference Report : «Freedom, equality and exception in market economies»

  15 January 2007
  The papers presented at the Challenge conference «Freedom, equality and exception in market economies» held in Athens, 9th and 10th November, 2006

• «Liberalism and the culture of danger»

  26 December 2006
  Foucault inserts a new conceptual acceleration of the passage to liberalism, through fear and danger. Danger becomes the prerogative of the liberal function, through a culture of stimulating and reproducing a notion of continuous danger to the actors of economic life.

• «Liberalism and Danger in Michel Foucault’s Naissance de la Biopolitique (Lesson of January 24, 1979)» : Further remarks

  26 December 2006
  «Liberalism is engaged into a mechanism where it will have, at every moment, to arbitrate the liberty and security of individuals around this notion of danger». This phrase/sentence, drawn from Michel Foucault’s lesson of January 24, 1979 (Naissance de la Biopolitique, p. 67), is of great importance, since it makes clear, for the first time in the philosopher’s work, the link between the concept of liberalism on the one hand and that of security and liberty on the other, using as an intermediary the notion of danger.

• «Liberalism and Danger in Michel Foucault’s Naissance de la Biopolitique (Lesson of January 24, 1979)»

  26 December 2006
  Foucault inserts a new conceptual acceleration of the passage to liberalism, through fear and danger. Danger becomes the prerogative of the liberal function, through a culture of stimulating and reproducing a notion of continuous danger to the actors of economic life.

• Libertarianism and the question of Liberty and (Market) Security

  26 December 2006
  The most important question pertains to the crucial relationship between liberty and security. Nowhere in the two works is the issue considered in detail and in its implications. That is to say, there is no treatment of the relationship as a trade-off or otherwise. If one strictly follows libertarian principles, there is no way to determine a priori the specific terms of this relationship or whether it should be left to the free market to decide upon these terms.

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