Contemporary discussions on the merging between internal and external security and the relationship between liberty and security in Europe are seriously constrained by the degree to which the concepts, historical practices and institutions of liberty and security have been examined independently. This analytical division of labour expresses the practical and institutional division of labour encouraged by the structures of the modern international system and its clear distinction between foreign and domestic policies. This project is informed by an appreciation of the historical circumstances under which this distinction became a crucial defining feature of political life in the modern world of sovereign states, and of its consequences for the forms of liberal democratic politics that have emerged in Europe over the past few centuries. More significantly, it is also informed by an analysis of a broad range of structural changes on a global scale that now pose many profound challenges to this defining feature of modern European politics. Conversely, and more crucial for this project, the familiar world of secured communities living within well-defined territories and sustaining all the liberties of civil society is now seriously in tension with a profound restructuring of political identities and practices of securitization.
Subprojects
- The new state of Exception : The political and social implications of globalized insecurities (KeelUniversity [Prof Rob Walker], Kings College London [Prof Vivienne Jabri)
- Securatization beyond borders: Exceptionalism inside the EU and impact on policing beyond borders (Sciences Po Paris [Dr Diego Bigo], LSE London [Prof Karen Smith])
- Securitization, Technology and the Transformation of Warfare (CopenhagenUniversity [Prof Ole Wæver], PRIO Oslo [Research Prof. J. Peter Burgess and Research Prof Ola Tunander])
- Economic factors of conflict and violence (EART Hamburg [Dr Peter Lock])
- The changing dynamic of security in an enlarged Europe (CEPS, Brussels [Dr Joanna Apap])
- Accountability, responsibility and transparency in an enlarged Europe (University of Leeds [Prof Juliet Lodge])
- The changing relationships between the Accession countries and their neighbours in the changing landscape of liberty and security (University of SzegedHungary [Prof Judit Toth], European Institute Bulgaria, Batori Fondation Poland)
- Effects of exceptionalism on social cohesion in Europe and beyond (University of Genoa [Prof Alessandro Dal Lago])
- Exceptionalism and its impact on the Euro-Mediterranean relations (Central University of Barcelona [Prof Roberto Bergalli])
- Securitization and Religious Divides in Europe after 9/11 (GSRL Paris [Dr Jocelyne Cesari])
- Fears, unease and threat/risk society/risk management and an assessment of vulnerabilities of different social groups and acceptance and resistance to exceptionalism (University of Caen)
- 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 (University of Athens [Prof Nicholas Scandamis], University of Cologne [Prof Wolfgang Wessels])
- The relationship between national, European and international law with respect to European borders; the security implications of this relationship; the specific effects of agreements on freedom of movement of goods, capital, services and persons (University of Utrecht)
- Securitization, Liberty and Law (University of Nijmegen [Prof Elspeth Guild])
