Challenge Publications

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• Internments: CPT and other camps

  19 February 2007, by Conflitti globali
  This issue of Conflitti globali is introduced by a map – the one produced by the research collective Migreurop – which effectively suggests the idea of the European Union as a big cage: almost two hundreds facilities dedicated to internment, control, and identification of migrants and displaced people. The visual effect of the map is therefore of a «chicken pox», whose spots are mainly concentrated within the current EU border, extending nonetheless their propagation to the EU candidates countries or to particular «mandatory» states – Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia –, as well as to countries with which Europe keeps uncertain and ambivalent relations, like Putin’s Russia or Gheddafi’s Libya.

• Desafío(s) 1 : POLÍTICA CRIMINAL DE LA GUERRA

  14 de febrero de 2007, por Observatorio del sistema Penal y los Derechos Humanos
  This first volume of Desafío ( s ) looks to begin an investigation field to analyze the (perverse) relationships established between power and the citizens’ rights. This volume presents different contributions that were submitted at the Seminar on Criminal Policies of War organized on March 2005 by the Observatori del Sistema Penal i els Drets Humans (OSPDH) of the University of Barcelona (UB).

• Internamenti cpt e altri campi

  5 febbraio 2007, di Conflitti globali
  Se guardate attentamente la cartina riprodotta nell’apertura di questo numero, potete farvi un’idea dell’Europa in gabbia. Circa duecento strutture dedicate all’internamento, al controllo e all’identificazione dei migranti. Non solo in Europa, ma anche nei paesi candidati e aspiranti all’ingresso nella Ue, nei tributari, come Marocco, Algeria e Tunisia, e in quelli con cui l’Europa intrattiene relazioni complesse, oscillanti tra la connivenza e il sospetto, come la Russia di Putin. La cartina ricorda irresistibilmente la dislocazione delle legioni e delle guarnigioni all’epoca in cui l’impero romano, ancora unificato, cominciava a mettersi sulla difensiva, diciamo da Marco Aurelio in poi.

• Selected List of Challenge Publications

  2 January 2007, by Challenge
  A selected list of Challenge publications

• Les pratiques illibérales des régimes libéraux, jeux d’(in)sécurité

  14 novembre 2006, par Bigo Didier, Cultures & Conflits, Tsoukala Anastassia
  Au nom de la protection et de la sécurité nationale, nous semblons à la fois être confrontés à un champ transnational des professionnels de la politique et des professionnels de la sécurité (police, renseignement, militaires). Cette évolution contribue peut-être à rassurer certains, mais elle induit aussi des pratiques illibérales dans les régimes libéraux qui se heurtent à la résistance des juges, des militants des droits de l’homme et d’une partie du public.

• Illiberal Practices of Liberal Regimes, the (In)Security Games

  14 November 2006, by Bigo Didier, Cultures & Conflits, Tsoukala Anastassia
  In the name of protection and national security, we witness the development of both a transnational field of professionals of politics and of professionals of security (police, intelligence, military). This development might provide a feeling of safety, but it also induces illiberal practices that lead to resistance from judges, human rights groups and part of the public.

• Communicating (in)Security: A Failure of Public Diplomacy?

  13 November 2006, by Lodge Juliet
  This paper attempts to unravel elements of the problem of communicating security to citizens in the EU and to show how it is tangled up in the misleading dichotomous rhetoric of security or liberty. The resulting failure of public diplomacy leads to sub-optimal policy outcomes and accountability deficits.

• Constitutional challenges to the European Arrest Warrant

  31 August 2006, by Guild Elspeth
  A challenge for European Law: the merging of international and external security

• The Political Life of Data: The ECJ Decision on the PNR agreement between the EU and the US

  29 August 2006, by Brouwer Evelien, Guild Elspeth
  The recent spate of legal, legislative and other activity on both sides of the Atlantic related to the collection, storage, use and manipulation of personal data highlights the serious political differences that divide the EU and the US regarding the relationship of the individual and the state. This paper by two Professors of Law at Radboud University at Nijmegen asks what is ‘the political life of data’ that has so galvanised EU and US institutions? Their point of departure is the Passenger Name Record (PNR) Agreement between the EU and the US, which was recently declared unlawful by the European Court of Justice.

• Immigration and Criminal Law in the European Union: The Legal Measures and Social Consequences of Criminal Law in Member States on Trafficking and Smuggling in Human Beings

  30 June 2006, by Guild Elspeth, Minderhoud Paul
  This is a study of the legal framework on criminal measures on trafficking and/or smuggling and facilitating illegal entry in six Member States: France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain and the UK, and the European Union. This issue is at the nexus of migration and criminal law. The system of criminal law in the Member States is a central part of the balance of the powers of the authorities and the rights of the citizen. The way in which civil liberties of the individual are weighed in comparison with public protection duties by the authorities is in essence a constitutional issue. The treatment of foreigners, in particular as regards their entry onto the territory and residence is not part of the constitutional settlements, but a field governed by state discretion and exceptionalism.

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