WP 2 : Securatization beyond borders: Exceptionalism inside the EU and impact on policing beyond borders

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• Evolutions et régulations des illégalismes populaires en France depuis le début des années 1980

  21 November 2005, by Bonelli Laurent
  « L’explosion » de l’insécurité dans les banlieues françaises est devenue un sujet incontournable du débat politique, électoral et médiatique. Les discours inquiets ou alarmistes, les dossiers spéciaux et les reportages spectaculaires se succèdent et se multiplient reléguant au second plan des pans entiers de l’actualité sociale et politique du pays. Analystes, « experts » et essayistes de la sécurité prophétisent sur fond de cartes exponentielles de la délinquance, l’avènement de zones de « non-droit » aux mains de délinquants toujours plus jeunes, plus récidivistes et plus violents, alors que les différents partis politiques, toutes tendances confondues, invoquent la « demande de sécurité » de leurs électeurs pour réclamer une action plus énergique de la police et de la justice. Depuis le milieu des années 1990, la sécurité urbaine est de la sorte devenue l’une des principales priorités des différents gouvernements, qui y consacrent des moyens importants, matériels et législatifs.

• Political Discourses ont the terrorist Threat in the post september 11 era

  7 March 2005, by Tsoukala Anastassia
  These statements rely on the assumption that the nexus terrorism-immigration poses a major threat to the internal security of the EU countries.

• Financial Surveillance-Liberty or Security?

  1 March 2005, by Vlcek William
  The impact of changing perceptions of liberty and security impinge upon the daily lives of ordinary citizens beyond the bag inspections and metal detectors in public buildings, public events and public transportation systems. This paper proposes to outline the more subtle effects to daily life emerging from the increased surveillance of financial transactions to counter the financing of terrorism. The surveillance of ‘normal’ financial transactions affects citizens and non-citizens in a variety of ways, which include opening and maintaining bank accounts, transferring money across borders, securing home mortgages, and even the choice of charity to support.

• The ESDP and the fight against international crime

  1 March 2005, by Smith Karen
  Since the Helsinki European Council in December 1999, progress in developing the European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP) has been extremely rapid. The headline goal has been ‘met’ (though there are obvious resource gaps), several operations have been launched, an armaments agency has been set up, battle groups created, and a planning cell agreed. Several recent articles trace these developments: Brady and Tonra 2005; Deighton 2002; Diedrichs and Jopp 2004; Howarth 2001; Ojanen 2003.

• Balancing between exclusion and inclusion: the impact of enlargement and new security challenges on EU’s external border policies

  28 February 2005, by Sinikukka Saari
  This working paper will argue that one can identify two simultaneous and mutually contradictory processes of building security vis-à-vis ’outsiders’ in today’s Europe: one pulling towards exclusion and one towards inclusion.

• WP2 : Contribution of London School of Economics and Political Science

  28 February 2005, by Smith Karen
  The areas that the team will be looking at are the external dimensions of Justice and Home Affairs, the European Security and Defence Policy and Common Foreign and Security policy and the inter-linkages between them in light of the fight against international organised crime. In addition to this EU level of analysis, the team will be analysing how the fight against new security threats influences the permanent (or at least long-term) outsiders of the EU, as well as the daily lives of citizens.

• Securitization beyond borders: Exceptionalism inside the EU and impact on policing beyond borders

  30 November 2004, by Bigo Didier
  The workpackage will present a detailed analysis of an alternative conceptualisation of security which can embrace both internal and external definitions and reframe the academic knowledge’s of international relations, political sociology and political theory. It will discuss how and why the discourses concerning security, by opposing it to mobility instead of freedom and by undermining the notion of freedom, destabilize the triptych relation between danger, (in)security and freedom. It will address the question of civil liberties regarding the perceptions of (in)security, fears and unease arising both from outside and inside in relations with the management of unease by the security professionals and the political discourses of (il)liberalism by the professionals of politics.

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