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• The Nexus between Immigration, Integration and Citizenship in the EU

  12 April 2006, by Apap Joanna, Besselink Leonard F. M., Carrera Sergio , Groenendijk Kees, Groot (de) Gerard-René, Guild Elspeth, Niessen Jan, Pratt Sandra
  What is the nexus between immigration, integration and citizenship in the EU, and what are the effects emerging from that relationship? The papers presented at the CHALLENGE seminar of 25 January 2006 addressed these questions and offered an overview of the main trends, issues, uncertainties and vulnerabilities surrounding these contested issues.

• A Comparison of Integration Programmes in the EU: Trends and Weaknesses

  4 April 2006, by Carrera Sergio
  This paper offers an overview of integration programmes for immigrants in a selected group of EU member states. The main trends and similarities are assessed and broadly compared. As the paper argues, in the national arena there appears to be a distinct move in the direction of integration programmes with a mandatory character. Obligatory participation in such programmes is now a regular feature of both immigration and citizenship legislation, and a precondition for having access to a secure juridical status.

• Security and the Two-Level Game: The Treaty of Prüm, the EU and the Management of Threats

  23 January 2006, by Balzacq Thierry, Bigo Didier, Carrera Sergio , Guild Elspeth
  On 27 May 2005, seven Member States signed the Prüm Convention to step up cross-border cooperation, particularly in combating terrorism, cross-border crime and illegal migration. Named after the German city in which it was signed, the Treaty’s main advantage is that it enables the signatories to speed up the exchange of information. However, this paper argues that the Treaty produces negative externalities for the European Union’s area of freedom, security and justice by circumventing the EU framework.

• When does war become crime? Aspects of the criminal case against Eric O.

  2 January 2006, by Dieben Diede-Jan, Dieben Thom
  This essay gives an analysis of the Dutch participation in the war in Iraq and of the crucial meaning of the Rules Of Engagement when soldiers are in operation after the end of the combat but still occupying the country and participating to Law and Order activities.

• La metamorfosi del guerriero

  2006, di Conflitti globali
  Quando le truppe delle diverse nazioni belligeranti cominciarono a massacrarsi nell’estate del 1914, le loro divise erano per lo più quelle di trent’anni prima. Con l’eccezione degli inglesi, che avevano rinunciato da tempo alla tradizionale giubba rossa in favore del kaki, tutti gli altri mantenevano i segni esteriori di un modo di combattere che non esisteva più. I belgi portavano ancora il kepì e le spalline con le nappe, mentre i tedeschi avevano ancora l’elmo con il chiodo della guerra franco-prussiana. I russi erano abbigliati con la tipica tunica contadina e il berretto con visiera della guerra con i giapponesi. I francesi avevano il lungo cappotto rimboccato e spesso i pantaloni rossi del 1870. I copricapo della cavalleria erano vari e bizzarri come si conveniva a un’arma considerata ancora la più nobile, mentre i corazzieri portavano ancora la corazza e il cimiero con la coda di cavallo.

• fronti/frontiere

  2006, di Conflitti globali
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• No Constitutional Treaty? Implications for the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice

  1 October 2005, by Carrera Sergio , Guild Elspeth
  The future of the Constitutional Treaty is now very much in doubt. The blows received from the French and Dutch referenda in such rapid succession have made it difficult to imagine that the Treaty, at least in its current form, will ever enter into force. Inter alia, the Constitution promised to consolidate and extend the flagship of the Amsterdam Treaty – the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice. This paper examines what the failure of the Constitutional Treaty would mean for this critical area explores what can be done to mitigate the negative effects?

• Migration, Borders & Asylum – Trends and Vulnerabilities in EU Policy

  2 July 2005, by Balzacq Thierry, Carrera Sergio
  What level of policy convergence has been achieved by EU member states on immigration, borders and asylum? Although this question may sound rather theoretical, in practice it has profound consequences on the everyday life of individuals and the very nature of the EU. Common action in this field is exacerbated by the significant obstacles that negatively impact the quality of policies and the success of their implementation. Together with the tense EU struggle between the intergovernmental and community method of governing, these factors are detrimental to an EU-wide policy for promoting freedom, justice and stability in an enlarging Union.

• Controlling Frontiers : Free Movement Into and Within Europe

  28 April 2005, by Bigo Didier, Guild Elspeth
  Focusing in particular on the European borders, this volume brings together an interdisciplinary group of academics to consider questions of immigration and the free movement of people, linking control within the state to the role of the police and internal security.

• La guerra dei mondi

  Marzo 2005, di Conflitti globali
  Pensare i conflitti politici e sociali, in un’accezione molto ampia, senza proiettarli su scala planetaria è oggi privo di senso. Ciò non significa perseguire un’impossibile lettura unitaria o globale del conflitto – come avviene, al prezzo di un’evidente deriva ideologica, nelle teorie oggi prevalenti di destra («scontro di civiltà») o di sinistra («guerra civile globale») – quanto piuttosto comprendere la rete di implicazioni di cui ogni conflitto è espressione. Così, per esempio, la posta del controllo delle risorse energetiche in Medio Oriente è in gioco su diversi piani: egemonia americana, ruolo dell’Europa (con le sue divisioni e diverse sfere d’influenza), economia globale, mercato petrolifero, crisi dei nazionalismi arabi, movimenti religiosi ecc.

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