WP 12 : Normative parameters of exceptionalism: Community governance patterns in the field of security and its implications for a future global governance as responding to the internal rules of globalization, existing or to be

Articles

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

  1 July 2008, by Scandamis Nicholas
  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

• The concepts of security and liberty in the framework of the European Union: the case of the EU’s external action

  1 July 2008, by University of Athens, University of Cologne
  The concepts of Liberty and Security, both in a theoretical perspective and in view of their role in the formulation and implementation of virtually all policies in a modern polity, acquire a special place in the framework of the European Union. Taking into account the rapid development of a variety of EU policies that revolve around these concepts, this special place merits extensive attention. This is particularly important for the analysis of the development of a distinct foreign policy/external action of the EU, in the framework of which the concepts of liberty and security acquire a significant role.

• The Institutional Architecture of CFSP after the Lisbon Treaty: Constitutional breakthrough or challenges ahead?

  30 June 2008, by Bopp Franziska, Wessels Wolfgang
  This paper analyses the impact of the Lisbon Treaty on the institutional architecture of CFSP and the overall external action of the Union. The Lisbon Treaty has introduced some remarkable changes which might substantially influence the (inter-)institutional balance in this policy field. The authors offer two different possible readings of the CFSP provisions of the Lisbon Treaty: they could be interpreted as a major step forward in the direction of a strengthened, more coherent and more effective international actor with more supranational elements; but they may also be seen as demonstrating an ever-refined mode of ‘rationalised intergovernmentalism’.

• The Commission’s «Proposal for a Council Framework Decision amending Framework Decision 2002/475/JHA on combating terrorism»

  5 December 2007, by University of Athens
  The proposed amendment of the 2002 Framework Decision on combating terrorism further increases the impression of a «(in)security continuum» that could be used as an argument for the criminalization of otherwise legal behaviours; these behaviours could, most importantly, be regarded as forms of exercise of such fundamental freedoms as the freedom of expression. In fact, the main problem of the new offences to be created is the inadequate treatment of the rivalry between freedoms that they involve, by virtue of the abstract definitions and subjective criteria that are proposed to national legislative authorities, an element that ultimately poses a threat to the rule of law.

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

  22 October 2007, by Scandamis Nicholas, Sigalas Frantzis, Stratakis Sofoklis, University of Athens
  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.

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

  9 May 2007, by University of Athens
  WP 12 (the University of Athens and the University of Cologne) has organized a workshop for the 11th of May 2007 at the University of Athens.

• Seminar : Global Growth and Security- A Corporate Perspective

  26 February 2007, by Scandamis Nicholas, University of Athens
  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, by Scandamis Nicholas
  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, by Scandamis Nicholas
  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, by Foucault Michel, Scandamis Nicholas
  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, by Foucault Michel, Scandamis Nicholas
  «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, by Foucault Michel, Scandamis Nicholas
  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, by Friedman David, Hoppe Hans-Hermann, Scandamis Nicholas
  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.

• Conference : Freedom, equality and exception in market economies

  8 November 2006, by University of Athens
  A conference about Freedom, equality and exception in market economies organized by the Universty of Athens

• CFSP after the Constitutional Treaty: The Stakes for the Future

  7 November 2005, by Diedrichs Udo, Tekin Funda
  The Debate on the Future of CFSP: The Obsession with the Constitutional Treaty The last years have been a crucial phase for the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP). Apparent failure during the Iraq crisis (Hill 2004), increased heterogeneity in the wake of enlargement, and the present ratification crisis of the Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe (TCE) - which was triggered by a negative vote in France on 29 May 2005 and an even more dramatic rejection a few days later on 3 June 2005 in the Netherlands - do not sum up to an overwhelmingly positive assessment of the record of Europe’s foreign policy. Now that the entrance into force of the Constitutional Treaty seems to be in real danger, pessimists might state that the stakes for the CFSP and its future look rather dreadful. The EU will probably have to be prepared to live and work with the Treaty of Nice in the coming years, which might lead to new crises and conflicts.

• Tekin Funda : curriculum vitae

  6 November 2005, by Tekin Funda
  Funda Tekin finished her studies of economics with special reference to political science at the University of Cologne in summer 2004 writing her diploma thesis on the politico-administrative change and the Europeanisation of Turkey.

• Scandamis Nicholas : curriculum vitae

  12 September 2005, by Scandamis Nicholas
  Nicholas Scandamis is Professor of European Community Law at the University of Athens.

• Wessels Wolfgang : curriculum vitae

  23 May 2005, by Wessels Wolfgang
  Prof. Wolfgang Wessels has been Jean Monnet Chair for Political Science at the University of Cologne, since 1994. He is chairman of the Executive Board of the Institut für Europäische Politik, Berlin and of the Trans European Policy Studies Association (Tepsa), Brussels.

• Entre modernité et mondialisation - Cinq leçons d’histoire de la philosophie du droit et de l’État

  9 March 2005, by Arnaud André-Jean
  Arnaud studies certain significant aspects of the process of globalization in this collection of essays; in this report, the themes that are the most relevant for our research will be briefly presented. The introductory chapter offers a general account of globalization, which is important for the theoretical tools that need to be devised to grasp the normative parameters at global level. Globalization is the product of a number of conditions: a change in the modes of production; the development of markets of capital; the growth of multi-national enterprises; the relationships between regional economic blocks -including the EU; structural adjustments leading to privatization and diminishing the role of the State; the hegemony of neo-liberal concepts; a growing interest in the expansion of democracy, in the protection of human rights and in the establishment of the rule of law worldwide; and the growth of Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs).

• WP12: State of the Art

  4 March 2005, by University of Athens
  Are there any normative patterns of globalisation regulating trade and population flows? Is a globalised borderless normative order already in place or is it gradually emerging and under which circumstances? What about the relations between an actual borderless normative order and EC Governance in the economic field? Is the EU Governance in terms of the security of the market a representative paradigm of security governance in a globalised world? Most importantly, what is the role of individual and new forms of subjectivity put forward in the context of globalisation? Which are the interactions and struggles between different techniques of exercising power as individualisation techniques and how do they relate to new forms of normativity in a borderless order?

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