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

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• 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 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.

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

  29 May 2007, by Scandamis Nicholas, University of Athens
  The European Union, representative of a new type of federalism, not restricted to the economic field but also having a political dimension, is based both on the concept of fundamental rights which introduce the respect of the person in his interactions with other persons of a community as well as on the concept of European culture.

• 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.

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