WP 3 : Securitization, Technology and the Transformation of Warfare
Latest addition – Wednesday 15 November 2006.
To map state of the art research on the changing relationship between new security challenges and the way new technologies transform the practice of war in the context of the evolving European security identity, as a basis for articulating the European self-understanding towards the rest of the world. Ole Waever
To develop an up-to-date history of the main discourses on ‘risks’ and ‘security threats’, thereby sharpening the theoretical concepts underlying the future formulation of European security and foreign policy.
To explore the history and emerging relationship between practices of (...)
This section's articles
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15 November 2006, by Burgess Peter
Considerable attention was attracted to the conference in the Norwegian research and diplomatic communities. In addition to the members from the COST Action, Challenge and PRIO, 86 external people registered which included diplomats, journalists, academics and students.
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3 January 2006, by Søby Kristensen Kristian
Critical infrastructure protection (CIP) plays an increasingly central role in the strategies to reduce societal vulnerability and to mitigate the conceived threat from terrorism on both sides of the Atlantic. Simultaneously the practice of CIP questions our theoretical understanding of a range of concepts as it introduces new technologies and new knowledge to the practice of security, not easily caught from the perspective of IR and traditional security studies.
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30 November 2004, by Waever Ole
To map state of the art research on the changing relationship between new security challenges and the way new technologies transform the practice of war in the context of the evolving European security identity, as a basis for articulating the European self-understanding towards the rest of the world.