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• CALL FOR PAPER – 2008 : INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL SOCIOLOGY

  21 April 2008, by International Political Sociology
  Beginning in 2007, International Political Sociology is the fifth journal supported by the International Studies Association and its inception responds to the need for more productive collaboration among political sociologists, international relations specialists and sociopolitical theorists. Its uniqueness lies in the combined initiative of researchers from Europe, Canada, the USA and Australia to make this journal a new venue for theoretical and empirical innovation in the field of international relations. IPS strongly encourages transdisciplinary analysis of contemporary world phenomena by offering a meeting space for scholars from all over the world.

• The Other Side of Moon - The Schengen Information System and Human Rights: A Task for National Courts

  16 April 2008, by Brouwer Evelien
  The European Commission’s proposals for a European Border Management Strategy are based on an almost blind faith in the use of large-scale databases, identification measures and biometrics for immigration and border control purposes. Yet these measures entail a risk to the protection of not only the right to privacy and the right to data protection, but also to the freedom of movement and the principle of non-discrimination.

• Research Conference : Intelligence, borders and surveillance, April 21st, 2008

  14 April 2008, by Challenge French Team
  The fight against terrorism has led to multiple transformations of the state’s security apparatuses – with a priority now given to intelligence -, as well as of the very logics that have historically underpinned the concept of «security» – with the now prevailing logic of anticipation.

• 5th CHALLENGE Training School : Migration, Visas & Asylum: Social, Legal and Political Issues (18 & 19 April 2008)

  31 March 2008, by Centre for European Policy Studies
  The Training School will address the social, legal and political issues comprised in the construction of a common EU Immigration and Asylum Policy. The ‘migration dossier’ is highly complex as it comprises a considerable number of different facets. Therefore, the Training school seeks to focus on the various issues and questions related to «migrations» from an interdisciplinary and comparative perspective. This event brings together young researchers to deepen and widen their knowledge on the issues at stake along with key academics and policy makers

• What Future for the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice? : Recommendations on EU Migration and Borders Policies in a Globalising World

  18 March 2008, by Bigo Didier, Carrera Sergio , Guild Elspeth
  The President of the European Commission, José Manuel Barroso, has launched a brainstorming exercise about the future policy priorities for the development of the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice (AFSJ). Migration and borders will constitute two of the most relevant policies on which the next EU budget covering the AFSJ beyond 2013 will be focused.

• The Commission’s New Border Package Does it take us one step closer to a ‘cyber-fortress Europe’?

  18 March 2008, by Carrera Sergio , Geyer Florian , Guild Elspeth
  The European Commission presented a new ‘Border Package’ on 13 February 2008, setting out its vision of how to foster the further management of the EU’s external border. Billed in a Commission press release as a «comprehensive vision for an integrated European border management system for the 21st century», one of the key elements of this package is a Communication aimed at establishing an EU entry/exit system registering the movement of specific categories of third country nationals at the external borders of the EU.

• Conference : The external dimension of the intra-EU security: the CFSP, ESDP and JHA in the ENP area

  30 January 2008, by Johansson-Nogués Elisabeth, Université Autonoma de Barcelona
  The IUEE, the LSE and the University of Cologne are pleased to announce the CHALLENGE conference: «The external dimension of the intra-EU security: the CFSP, ESDP and JHA in the ENP area». The conference will be held in Barcelona the 22 of February.

• Call for papers FIFTH CHALLENGE TRAINING SCHOOL Migration, Visas and Asylum: Social, legal, political and economic issues

  22 January 2008, by Centre for European Policy Studies
  The Centre of European Policy Studies (CEPS) is organising the Fifth CHALLENGE Training School on «Migration, Visas and Asylum: Social, Legal, Political and Economic Issues». The event will take place at CEPS on the 18 & 19 April 2008. You may find attached to this e-mail the detailed Call for Papers. CEPS invites submission of Proposals for Papers addressing the conference’s theme no later than 21 February 2008.

• IPS Conference Proceedings : International, Political, Sociology, October 26th-27th 2007

  21 January 2008, by International Political Sociology
  On October 26th and 27th, 2007, researchers and specialists gathered at the premises of Sciences Po-Paris to start a debate on the concepts of international, political and sociology at the conference organized by IPS (International Political Sociology Journal ) and the COST network , under the scientific responsibility of Didier Bigo (CERI-Sciences Po-Paris) and R.B.J. Walker (University of Victoria / Keele University).

• Seminar : Transnational Intelligence, Territorial Intelligence, and Security

  16 January 2008, by Challenge French Team
  The Challenge research program hosted by the CERI-Sciences Po, the ISP/ENS-Cachan et the CICC (Montreal) invite you at the research seminar on Transnational Intelligence, Territorial Intelligence, and Security

• Seminar : Language and Integration Tests for Newcomers and Future Citizens

  8 January 2008, by Radboud University
  Language and integration tests are a topical issue in various European Union Member States. Several Member States have introduced language and integration courses in their domestic legislation. Immigrants have to pass language and integration tests in order to prove that they have obtained a certain level of knowledge, sometimes even before entering the country. Though the modalities of the integration tests and courses vary between the Member States, the introduction of the tests reflects a change in ideas on the relationship between legal status and integration.

• A question of identity becomes a matter of freedom

  24 December 2007, by Lodge Juliet
  The way in which biometric information and especially digitised data can be transmitted across borders without the explicit consent or knowledge of the data subject , the risks of outsourcing and inadequate accountability mechanisms and security architectures for public-private partnerships are examined and criticised in this press article by Juliet Lodge for Challenge

• Seminar : Managing Threats? Citizens and disasters abroad – EU policy responses

  26 November 2007, by Centre for European Policy Studies
  While efforts in these two policy fields had been stepped up considerably in the last years, both are traditionally located within member states’ competence and the scepticism member states have shown towards further EU involvement underline a continuing reluctance. One might therefore wonder to what extent the citizen at risk abroad - by his very construction as an EU citizen and related citizenship rights - is in fact perceived as a threat to state sovereignty in international relations.

• Are you who you say you are? The EU and Biometric Borders

  26 November 2007, by Lodge Juliet
  The question of proving identity using biometric information, storing, accessing and verifying it raises more than technical questions. It goes to the heart of the legal and political values of our politics. The prospect of cross-border automatic information exchange and e-governance beg questions about how an abuse of power can be avoided, democratic accountability sustained, and liberty and security brought into balance.

• Conference : Twelve Stories in Search of a Sovereign

  13 November 2007, by Challenge French Team, Walker Rob J.
  The research group on « Mapping the field of Security in Europe» invites you to the conference: Twelve Stories in Search of a Sovereign

• IV CHALLENGE Training School : « Integration, Immigration & Citizenship: European, National & Local Responses »

  23 October 2007, by Centre for European Policy Studies, Challenge
  The Training School will address the European, national and local responses to integration, immigration and citizenship. What is the role, functions and vulnerabilities of integration in the contexts of immigration, citizenship and asylum at the various levels of governance? What are the social impacts of their intersection in processes of inclusion? What is the role of religion and culture? The Training School seeks to address these and other related questions. It brings together young researchers to deepen and widen their knowledge on the issues at stake along with key academics and policy makers.

• Workshop : The Internal & External Dilemmas of a Common EU Immigration Policy

  23 October 2007, by Centre for European Policy Studies
  The EU’s common immigration policy has been the focus of substantial activity over the past six months. The context and framework of movement of third country nationals into and out of the EU for employment purposes is undergoing an important transformation which encompasses three key dimensions

• Conference International, Political, Sociology 26-27 October 2007

  2 October 2007, by International Political Sociology
  The joint IPS/COST conference that will take place next October 26-27 at the CERI-Sciences Po (Paris) is organized in the broader scope of the journal International Political Sociology (IPS) launching. IPS is the Journal of one of the section with the same name of the International Studies Association (ISA). Its newness lies in the combine initiative of researchers from around Europe, Canada, the USA and Australia actually interested in making this journal a new venue for theoretical and empirical innovation in International Relations.

• Conference : Structures, Processes and Consequences in the Use of Surveillance and Intelligence Databases

  1 October 2007, by Challenge French Team
  The Challenge Research Program and ENS-Cachan invite you to the conference : Structures, Processes and Consequences in the Use of Surveillance and Intelligence Databases by Gary T. MARX on October 24th, 2007

• Conference Proceedings: Democratic Control and Judicial Accountability in Area of Freedom, Security and Justice

  10 September 2007, by Challenge
  The event included presentations examining the way in which current institutional mechanisms, bodies and procedures applicable to this policy area have an impact on the changing relationship between freedom and security. At the heart of these discussions are the implications of new security policies for individual liberties. The event also served as a forum to present the Mid-Report of the CHALLENGE project gathering its main findings and policy recommendations of the first half of the project’s time span.

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