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• Abstracts of the CHALLENGE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE The Exchange and Storage of Data, Paris, October 10-11, 2008

  4 November 2008, by Challenge French Team
  The abstracts of the CHALLENGE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE The Exchange and Storage of Data held in Paris on October 10-11, 2008

• CHALLENGE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE The Exchange and Storage of Data October 10-11, 2008

  11 September 2008, by Challenge French Team
  The increased use of the exchange of personal data in security matters, which are handled at the European and transnational level, raises crucial questions from two angles; The political implications of the harmonisation of technical systems for the exchange of data, and also from the point of view of the legal and judicial guarantees offered to citizens and foreigners in the field of data protection.

• COLLOQUE INTERNATIONAL CHALLENGE : Echange et conservation des données, 10-11 octobre 2008

  11 septembre 2008, par Challenge French Team
  L’usage croissant des échanges de données personnelles en matière de sécurité à l’échelle européenne et transnationale pose des questions centrales tant du point de vue des implications politiques de l’harmonisation des systèmes techniques de transmission de données que du point de vue des garanties légales et juridiques offertes aux citoyens et aux étrangers en matière de protection des données.

• Providing Europe with the tools to bring its border management into the 21st century

  31 March 2008, by Frattini Franco
  «Why does Europe need a new approach to border management? Europe needs a new approach to border management to better face the challenges posed by globalisation, increased mobility and ever changing security threats. We need to be one step ahead to the increasingly better organised networks of terrorists and criminals who have discovered the lucrative trafficking in human beings, drugs and weapons. Innovative and effective border controls have to strike a difficult balance between ensuring the free movement of a growing number of people across borders and guaranteeing greater security for Europe’s citizens. Border controls therefore have to focus more on potential challenges, be flexible enough to adapt to unexpected circumstances and be easy to operate by border guards.»

• Norway Criticized for Extradition to Regimes Practicing Torture

  4 February 2008, by Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation
  Several human rights organizations have claimed that the Norwegian military intentionally extradite Afghan prisoners of war to regimes that evidently practice torture.

• Flaws in Expanded EU Police Cooperation

  4 February 2008, by Swedish Data Inspectorate
  Implementing the Prüm Convention into the EU legal framework will result in good access to other countries’ criminal records – in some cases better access than the country’s own police force.

• European Integration and Immigration by Third-Country Nationals: The Obduracy of the National Border

  17 December 2007, by Cornelisse Galina
  For the early French Revolutionaries, the concept of the nation did not serve as a vehicle for territorial states’ exclusionist practices. Neither did they conceive of national identity primarily as a criterion by which to distinguish between «us» and «them». For them, the concept of the nation gave expression to the radical idea of an inclusive political community based the concept of popular sovereignty, equality and unalienable rights. However, the territoriality of global political organisation led to a different role for nationalism on the global political stage than which could have been foreseen by the early Revolutionaries. Contemporary nationalism is defined by the very distinction between «us» and «them» and its original promise of individual rights and freedoms often seems to be in direct contradiction with everyday reality.

• Conference : Twelve Stories in Search of a Sovereign

  13 November 2007, by Challenge French Team, Walker Rob J.
  The research group on « Mapping the field of Security in Europe» invites you to the conference: Twelve Stories in Search of a Sovereign

• EC criminal law competence – judgment of the Court in case C-440/05

  29 October 2007, by Court of Justice of the European Communities
  The Court of Justice annuls the Council Framework Decision to strengthen the criminal-law framework for the enforcement of the law against ship-source pollution due to its adoption outside the Community legislative framework

• Data retention – a critical side note by Advocate-General Kokott

  10. September 2007, von Kokot Juliane
  Case C-275/06 (Promusicae/Telefonica de Espana) deals with the question whether internet access providers (here: Telefonica) are under an obligation to reveal personal data on their users to a private party (Promusicae) in order to enable the latter to bring civil law charges against these users for the infringement of intellectual property rights (here: filesharing of audiovisual files). Under Spanish law internet access providers are merely obliged to reveal the requested data to state authorities for the purpose of criminal law. The Spanish court wanted to know whether this restriction is in conformity with EU law.

• EC criminal law competence – Advocate General delivers opinion in case C-440/05

  3 July 2007, by Geyer Florian
  On 28 June 2007 Advocate General Jan Mazák delivered his opinion on the first pillar criminal law competence in case C-440/05, Commission v. Council (ship source pollution).

• Croatia’s EU Membership submitted to improved collaboration with UN Yugoslavia Tribunal

  23 April 2007, by European Parliament
  The European Parliament’s (EP) Progress Report on Croatia requests the next possible EU accession country to cooperate better with the International Criminal Tribunal for former Yugoslavia (ICTY). The report, drafted by Austrian Socialist MEP Hannes Swoboda has been adopted by the EP’s Foreign Affairs Committee on 27.3.2007 and will be discussed by the plenary next Wednesday, 25.4.2007.

• The politics of protection : sites of insecurity and political agency

  20 December 2006, by Dobson Andrew, Huysmans Jef , Prokhovnik Raia
  This book poses the question of political agency in relation to some of the most significant questions raised in relation to the governance of insecurity and protection in the contemporary world. The authors have identify and explore five issues that challenge or raise a number of questions about the traditional notion that states are to protect their citizens through retaining a monopoly over the legitimate use of violence

• Pentagon Breaks with Bush on Detentions

  12 July 2006, by The Guardian
  In a memo yesterday, the Pentagon said that Article 3 of the Geneva Convention would apply to the Guantanamo detainees. The memo was the result of the US Supreme Court Decision which ruled that military tribunals for the Guantanamo detainees are illegal. However, the White House spokesperson, Tony Snow, indicated that any policy changes would need to be consistent with national security.

• Beyond and Before the Law at Guantanamo

  12 July 2006, by Cutler Schershow Scott , Michaelson Scott
  The article explores the status of the Guantanamo detainees and argues that the category of ‘unlawful combatant’ has always been foundational to the laws of war, being applied to ‘spies’ or other irregular participants in an armed conflict. Thus, the predicament of the Guantanamo detainees is ‘the very manifestation of the existing state system and its corollary values’. Critics of Guantanmo cannot rely on international law or in the exercise of sovereignty. The authors’ suggestion is that sovereignty itself must be torqued in a strange reversal, and made to work against itself. Sovereignty must be ‘expended without reserve in the name, not of law, but of justice, to the point where the territory and its boundary tremble’.

• An Interview with Giorgio Agamben

  12 July 2006, by Raulff Ulrich
  In this interview, Agamben discusses his latest book, The State of Exception, in relation to the latest developments in the ‘war on terror’. Methodologically, he makes a distinction between the camp as a ‘paradigm’ compared to other forms of sociological investigation. A ‘paradigm’, he argues, can be used to understand large historical structures. He also indicates that the ‘absence of law’ entailed by the state of exception is not the absence of governance. A double structure of the system, governance through law and governance through management, needs therefore to be considered.

• Abstracts of the Challenge Annual Conference: Illiberal practices of Liberal Regimes

  3 July 2006, by Challenge French Team
  Abstracts of the Challenge Annual Conference: Illiberal practices of Liberal Regimes, Paris, June 9th 2006

• Conference: Illiberal practices of liberal regimes?

  17 May 2006, by Challenge
  Organised in the scope of the Challenge Framework Programme, this conference will be the occasion, for the 23 European partners of the program, to present the state of their research. It will put together, within 8 different but complementary workshops, participants coming from different spheres (scholars, NGOs members, high level members of national as well as European institutions, security practitioners...). The conference aims at highlighting, from a transdisciplinary perspective, the contemporary transformation of the modern state so as to as the question of the illiberal practices of liberal regimes.

• Balancing between inclusion and exclusion: The EU’s fight against irregular migration and human trafficking from Ukraine, Moldova and Russia

  31 January 2006, by Sinikukka Saari
  The EU has fought against human trafficking diligently since the adaptation of the first anti-trafficking strategy a decade ago. Nevertheless, the European anti-trafficking activity is in danger of turning into inefficient pottering due to two major shortcomings. Its efficiency suffers from tight migration policies and from weak protection of trafficking victims. These fundamental deficiencies also demonstrate that in practice traditional, sovereignty-based security thinking is still prioritised over more ethical considerations.

• Sécurité et immigration

  12 December 2005, by Cultures & Conflits
  A distance d’une sociographie de l’immigration et d’une approche traditionnelle des études de sécurité, ce numéro se veut une contribution à la sociologie des transformations de l’Etat et à une réflexion vers les nouvelles modalités de la gouvernementalité. Il n’en est sans doute qu’un premier pas mais il ouvre une voie de recherche reliant les questions fondamentales de sociologie politique et les interrogations des internationalistes sur la sécurité et l’immigration. Il s’inscrit dans une continuité de recherches et de publications qui ont déjà abordé cette question de la sécurisation de l’immigration et desquels il est redevable. Mais il vise plus spécifiquement à interroger les cadres mêmes de la réflexion sur ces liens entre sécurité et migration au lieu de les considérer comme donnés. C’est pourquoi tous les articles réunis dans ce numéro visent à éclairer une facette particulière de ces transformations des formes de gouvernementalité qui restructurent nos manières de penser l’Etat et par là même la sécurité et l’immigration.

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