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• Assessment of the Human Rights Situation of Roma and Sinti in Italy

  15 April 2009, by OSCE’s Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR)
  This report provides an overview of the delegation’s findings, based on first-hand information gathered through meetings with relevant Italian authorities and through discussions with Roma and Sinti living in the settlements visited by the delegation. The report also reflects other information made available to the delegation by the Italian authorities at the time of the visit.

• The last peace process in the basque country: 14 months of hope

  6 October 2008, by Forero Alejandro, Rivera Iñaki, Rodríguez Fernandez Gabriela, Ubasart Gemma
  The present work shows the genesis and development of the last peace process that took place in the Basque Country from March, 2007, in the frame of antiterrorist excepcionalism. The paper focus on the origins of the Basque conflict - outlining the history of the movement ETA- and in the influence that both the diverse actors and a part of the Spanish written press (the newspapers El País, El Mundo and Gara) have had in the development of the events.

• Compte rendu de la conférence IPS COST, Paris, 26-27 octobre 2007

  4 décembre 2007, par Galligo Dinah
  La conférence était organisée pour le lancement de la revue « International Political Sociology ». Participant à la section éponyme de l’International Studies Association, cette revue renouvelle la recherche en relations internationales grâce à l’apport innovant de chercheurs d’Europe, des Etats-Unis, du Canada et d’Australie.

• Accommodating diversity: why current critiques of multiculturalism miss the point

  29 October 2007, by Vasta Ellie
  Some European countries of immigration are currently experiencing a widespread ‘moral panic’ about immigrants and ethnic and religious diversity. This has led to a questioning of policies that recognize the maintenance of group difference and the formation of ethno-cultural and religious communities. Such approaches, which have variously been labelled ‘cultural’, ‘multicultural’, ‘diversity’ or ‘minority’ policies, share important common features concerning group recognition and group-based service provision. A backlash has occurred in policy and in public discourse, with migrants being blamed for not meeting their ‘responsibility to integrate’, hiding behind what are perceived to be ‘backward or illiberal cultural practices’. Such a culturalist approach is blamed for placing collective rights in place of individual rights.

• 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.

• Conférence : International, Political, Sociology 26-27 octobre 2007

  1er octobre 2007, par International Political Sociology
  La conférence IPS/COST qui est organisée les 26 et 27 octobre prochains au CERI-Sciences Po (Paris) se fait dans le cadre du lancement, en France, de la revue International Political Sociology (IPS). Hébergée au CERI-Sciences Po, cette revue est rattachée à la section portant le même nom au sein de l’International Studies Association.

• Croatia’s EU Membership submitted to improved collaboration with UN Yugoslavia Tribunal

  23 April 2007, by European Parliament
  The European Parliament’s (EP) Progress Report on Croatia requests the next possible EU accession country to cooperate better with the International Criminal Tribunal for former Yugoslavia (ICTY). The report, drafted by Austrian Socialist MEP Hannes Swoboda has been adopted by the EP’s Foreign Affairs Committee on 27.3.2007 and will be discussed by the plenary next Wednesday, 25.4.2007.

• European wave of immigration tests: Dutch and German controversies

  4 April 2006, by Baygert Nicolas
  More countries are showing the will to introduce or straighten admissions tests for immigrants. Foreigners pertaining to British citizenship are expected to take a 45 minute test of 24 questions demonstrating their basic knowledge of national culture. The price for this multiple choice test is £34. Applicants must answer correctly 75% of questions.

• L’état d’exception, le juge, l’étranger et les droits de l’Homme : trois défis des Cours britanniques

  13 February 2006, by Guild Elspeth
  Cet article examine la transformation de la relation entre les juges et les membres de l’exécutif au RU par l’intermédiaire du droit supranational. On observe, en analysant trois jugements rendus par les cours britanniques en décembre 2004, le changement fondamental en cours au sujet de la localisation de la souveraineté. Cet article évoque trois jugements qui soulèvent des doutes quant à la séparation des pouvoirs. En refusant d’accepter la différenciation entre le citoyen et l’étranger les cours détruisent la base pour l’exclusion de l’étranger des droits de l’Homme. Le mécanisme utilisé pour ce faire est l’incorporation du droit international au niveau national. En invoquant ainsi la mondialisation de la justice, les juges renforcent leur position d’arbitres de l’action et du comportement nationaux que ce soit à l’intérieur ou à l’extérieur de l’Etat. La frontière n’est plus déterminante, qu’il s’agisse de la frontière de l’Etat, de la frontière de l’état d’exception, ou de la frontière entre le citoyen et l’étranger.

• Ökonomie der « neuen Kriege » : Kalte Friedenskonsolidierung durch Kriminalisierung?

  7. Februar 2006, von Lock Peter
  Current wars represent a blend of different forms of violence, many of which can also be observed in societies not at war. Economic constraints of statehood under the current regime of global economic regulation have made the traditional distinction between the military and the police obsolete. Modernisation of economic activities in combination with rapid urbanisation, often leading to ungovernable mega-cities pose a new dramatic constraint to armed conflict. As a result certain forms of armed violence are transformed and render the distinction between war and not-in-war increasingly me

• Kriegsökonomien und Schatttenglobalisierung

  7. Februar 2006, von Lock Peter
  The hypothesis underlying the debate about « new wars » that there are fundamental differences between countries classified as « in war » and those « not in war » is questioned throughout the paper. The economic conditions and constraints war fighting parties face in the current environment do not disappear after a peace is negotiated. This explains that as rule to outcome of internationally supervised elections lend legitimacy to former warlords and other thugs. The continuation of their violence-based clientelistic power remains the only source for individual security.

• Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament and the Council COM (2005) 313 final, concerning terrorist recruitment: addressing the factors contributing to violent radicalization

  10 October 2005, by European Commission
  Addressing violent radicalization is part of a comprehensive action programme on the fight against terrorism, the aim of which is to prevent the spreading of ideas and views conducive to acts of terrorism. In this Communication, the Commission reports on its ongoing work in this area and proposes possible ways in which EU policies could be channeled more effectively in order to address the issue.

• Challenge website : the keywords

  14 September 2005, by Challenge
  This article gives the list of the keywords used on the Challenge website. The keywords in bold and italic are linked to the section.

• 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.

• Necessary Virtues:The Legitimate Place of the State in the Production of Security

  19 April 2005, by Loader Ian
  In their recent book Governing Security, Les Johnston and Clifford Shearing pinpoint what they see a significant shift in criminological writing about ‘the problem of the state’ (2003: 33-4). Three decades ago, they contend, ‘cutting-edge criminological theory’ posited the state as the ‘problem’ - structurally tied to class interests, systemically and unjustly directed towards coercing the poor and weak, incapable of defending public interests against narrowly drawn private ones. It was, as such, a force to be struggled against and, ultimately, transcended. Today, by contrast, such theory has come to invest in the state as ‘solution’ - a means of articulating and defending the ‘public interest’ in a market society whose neo-liberal champions triumphantly proclaim that no such thing exists. Johnston and Shearing describe this situation as a ‘strange paradox’ (2003: 34).

• Locating the Public interest in Transnational Policing

  19 April 2005, by Loader Ian, Walker Neil
  We try in this paper to tackle what David Held (2004: 166) calls ‘one of the principal political questions of our time’- namely, that of ‘how global public goods’ - in the present case policing and security - ‘can best be provided’. We want, in particular, to specify the ways in which the idea of the public interest may be conceptually reworked and institutionally relocated within today’s pluralized transnational security configuration.

• Loader Ian : curriculum vitae

  18 April 2005, by Loader Ian
  Ian Loader is Professor of Criminology at the University of Oxford, and Director of the Oxford Centre for Criminology. He is author of Youth, Policing and Democracy(1996, Palgrave), Crime and Social Change in MiddleEngland (2000, Routledge, with E. Girling and R. Sparks) and Policing and the Condition of England: Memory, Politics and Culture(2003, Oxford, with A. Mulcahy), as well as several papers on contemporary transformations in policing and security. He is currently working in two broad fields: (i) the historical sociology of crime policy in England and Wales and its intersections with political ideologies and culture, and (ii) the relationship between security and political community. He is currently writing a book on the latter topic (with Neil Walker), provisionally entitled Civilizing Security: Policing and Political Community in a Global Era.

• Foucault Discipline and Punish quotes

  12 April 2005, by Neal Andrew
  This document assembles and analyzes various quotes of contemporary relevance from Foucault’s "Discipline and Punish". Adapted from Andrew Neal, "Foucault in Guantanamo".

• Foucault in Guantanamo: National, Sovereign, Disciplinary Exceptionalism

  12 April 2005, by Neal Andrew
  The exception and exceptionalism are not the same thing. Carl Schmitt’s right-wing stitch-up is to suture together the ‘real possibility’ of the exceptional event with the exceptional sovereign response to the actual event, conflating the two. Typically, the idea of an event invokes a temporal sequence of event-response, action-reaction. But the prerogative of Schmitt’s sovereign to decide on the exception inverts this sequence. The conflation of declaring the exceptional event on the one hand, and responding to the exceptional event on the other, effaces the event qua independent causal event, the event-in-itself. Schmitt uses the ideaof the exception to demonstrate the necessity of the exceptional sovereign response. Yet the institutionalised prerogative sovereign decision on the exception precedes the event, and is only justified by the event’s theoretical ‘real possibility’.