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View article: eu-LISA: The Emergence of a Digital Technology Guild and its Rise in the Field of EU Internal Security
eu-LISA: The Emergence of a Digital Technology Guild and its Rise in the Field of EU Internal Security Open
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View article: The Banalisation of ‘Suspicion’: Politics of Prevention, Digitisation of Prediction, Fate of Travellers
The Banalisation of ‘Suspicion’: Politics of Prevention, Digitisation of Prediction, Fate of Travellers Open
This article argues that there is no single form of security that reduces insecurity but rather forms of (in)security that are contradictory and mutually destructive. This is the case between traditional liberal security, based on evidence…
View article: Biographical Reflections on Academic Freedom—Part Two
Biographical Reflections on Academic Freedom—Part Two Open
This paper continues our collective reflections on academic freedom in the context of Israel’s war on Palestine, and now Lebanon. As academic suppression has flourished within Europe and beyond, a broad constellation of actors has been dra…
View article: The Future Perfect of Suspicion and Prediction as a Dispositive of Security Today? The Legacy of Foucault (1977)
The Future Perfect of Suspicion and Prediction as a Dispositive of Security Today? The Legacy of Foucault (1977) Open
This article discusses the current legacy of Michel Foucault in relation to the current political situation. It is articulated in three parts. The first insists on the fact that Michel Foucault has been and still is significant for discuss…
View article: Biographical Reflections On Academic Freedom—Part One
Biographical Reflections On Academic Freedom—Part One Open
During the Covid-19 pandemic, we all became used to people wearing masks and covering their faces to protect society. By now these masks are off and we can clearly see everyone’s faces; we can read their lips and can understand their expre…
View article: Data Collaboration: the Aftermath of Operation Sirli
Data Collaboration: the Aftermath of Operation Sirli Open
This article analyses the collaboration between the French external services and the Egyptian government of President Sissi. In a first part, it recounts the revelations of the Disclose journalists in 2021 and their interview with an anony…
View article: Introduction
Introduction Open
Can the secret world of intelligence be reconciled with democratic standards? Can the forms of violence, surveillance, and disruptions inflicted by intelligence actors be kept in check? What sort of institutional designs can promote a more…
View article: Transformations of the transnational field of secret services
Transformations of the transnational field of secret services Open
Based on international political sociology (IPS), this chapter analyses through a field approach how the transformation of the scale of action in terms of secret violence and surveillance of large segments of the population has disrupted t…
View article: Extraordinary rendition
Extraordinary rendition Open
This chapter examines the Central Intelligence Agency's (CIA) extraordinary rendition programme from the perspective of its consequences for European states which provided assistance. Extraordinary rendition, the term given to the kidnappi…
View article: Forum: Did “America First” Construct America Irrelevant?
Forum: Did “America First” Construct America Irrelevant? Open
Did “America First” construct America irrelevant? Answering this question has been the subject of much debate in the popular press, the policy community, and scholarly circles. That asked, it is worth remembering that scholars and policyma…
View article: Obedience in times of COVID-19 pandemics: a renewed governmentality of unease?
Obedience in times of COVID-19 pandemics: a renewed governmentality of unease? Open
This article transects and articulates different disciplines and lines of thought in order to understand the redefinitions of the boundaries of political power in times of COVID-19, and the practices which may outlive the potential normali…
View article: Editorial
Editorial Open
[...] "Political Anthropological Research on International Social Sciences (PARISS)" seeks to encourage transversal social inquires so as to support flows rather than academic enclosures and to cut across conventional planes of scholarship…
View article: The Art of Writing Social Sciences: Disrupting the Current Politics of Style
The Art of Writing Social Sciences: Disrupting the Current Politics of Style Open
Through a critical engagement with substantive and stylistic guidelines dictated by dominant journals in the social sciences, this article enquires on what it means to write like a social scientist in the twenty-first century. Academic pro…
View article: Shared secrecy in a digital age and a transnational world
Shared secrecy in a digital age and a transnational world Open
This article examines the notion of shared secrets and the procedures by which secrecy is not the opposite of exchange of information, but the restriction of it to a certain 'circle' of people and the maintenance of others in ignorance. It…
View article: The Interoperability Controversy or How to Fail Successfully: Lessons from Europe
The Interoperability Controversy or How to Fail Successfully: Lessons from Europe Open
This article aims to discuss the interoperability controversy in the EU that followed the 2015 Paris attacks. Supported by visual methods, it analyses the historical developments of the databases that aim at facilitating migration and crim…
View article: The socio-genesis of a guild of “digital technologies” justifying transnational interoperable databases in the name of security and border purposes: a reframing of the field of security professionals?
The socio-genesis of a guild of “digital technologies” justifying transnational interoperable databases in the name of security and border purposes: a reframing of the field of security professionals? Open
Smart borders, intelligent systems of filtering travelers by detecting suspects of crime and\nterrorism through interoperable national data bases and regional agreements are\nproliferating. In the European Union it began with the Schengen …
View article: Adjusting a Bourdieusian Approach to the Study of Transnational Fields. Transversal Practices and State (Trans)formations Related to Intelligence and Surveillance
Adjusting a Bourdieusian Approach to the Study of Transnational Fields. Transversal Practices and State (Trans)formations Related to Intelligence and Surveillance Open
This paper addresses the possibility of using Bourdieusian concepts like fields of power, professional dispositions, and cultural habitus to explore transnational practices. To resolve questions of transnational field(s) we need to examine…
View article: The socio-genesis of a guild of digital technologies justifying transnational interoperable databases in the name of security and border purposes: a reframing of the field of security professionals
The socio-genesis of a guild of digital technologies justifying transnational interoperable databases in the name of security and border purposes: a reframing of the field of security professionals Open
Smart borders, intelligent systems of filtering travelers by detecting suspects of crime and terrorism through interoperable national data bases and regional agreements are proliferating. In the European Union it began with the Schengen In…
View article: International Law and European Migration Policy: Where Is the Terrorism Risk?
International Law and European Migration Policy: Where Is the Terrorism Risk? Open
This article examines how international law in form of treaties deals with the intersection of the three concepts. Our hypothesis is that international law, in the form of treaties, has been reluctant to engage with national security when …
View article: Online Surveillance, Censorship, and Encryption in Academia
Online Surveillance, Censorship, and Encryption in Academia Open
The Internet and digital technologies have become indispensable in academia. A world without email, search engines, and online databases is practically unthinkable. Yet, in this time of digital dependence, the academy barely demonstrates a…
View article: Data Politics
Data Politics Open
The Snowden leaks, first published in June 2013, provided unprecedented insights into the operations of state-corporate surveillance, highlighting the extent to which everyday communication is integrated into forms of control that rely on …
View article: Scaling up Roma Inclusion Strategies Truth, reconciliation and justice for addressing antigypsyism. Study. Study requested by the LIBE committee. CEPS Special Report, February 2019
Scaling up Roma Inclusion Strategies Truth, reconciliation and justice for addressing antigypsyism. Study. Study requested by the LIBE committee. CEPS Special Report, February 2019 Open
This study, commissioned by the European Parliament’s Policy Department for Citizens’ Rights and Constitutional Affairs at the request of the LIBE Committee, aims to promote a better understanding of the Roma minority and communities’ situ…
View article: Shared secrecy in a digital age and a transnational world
Shared secrecy in a digital age and a transnational world Open
This article examines the notion of shared secrets and the procedures by which secrecy is not the opposite of exchange of information, but the restriction of it to a certain ‘circle’ of people and the maintenance of others in ignorance. It…
View article: The implications of the United Kingdom’s withdrawal from the European Union for the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice
The implications of the United Kingdom’s withdrawal from the European Union for the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice Open
This study, commissioned by the European Parliament’s Policy Department for Citizens’ Rights and Constitutional Affairs at the request of the LIBE Committee, appraises the implications of the United Kingdom’s withdrawal from the European U…
View article: Data politics
Data politics Open
The article raises political questions about the ways in which data has been constituted as an object vested with certain powers, influence, and rationalities. We place the emergence and transformation of professional practices such as ‘da…
View article: Method in Trump’s madness?
Method in Trump’s madness? Open
A look at Donald Trump’s 'travel bans' with an eye to the harvesting of personal data, and the EU-US Privacy Shield, now on life support.
View article: Trump’s Travel Bans: Harvesting personal data and requiem for the EU-US Privacy Shield
Trump’s Travel Bans: Harvesting personal data and requiem for the EU-US Privacy Shield Open
This Policy Insight examines the main implications and challenges of the recent Executive Orders or ‘travel bans’\nissued by US President Donald Trump. It argues that one of the key ulterior motives behind these orders is to\nmanoeuvre the…
View article: Trump's travel bans. Harvesting personal data and requiem for the EU-US Privacy Shield. CEPS Policy Insights No. 2017/03, April 2017
Trump's travel bans. Harvesting personal data and requiem for the EU-US Privacy Shield. CEPS Policy Insights No. 2017/03, April 2017 Open
This Policy Insight examines the main implications and challenges of the recent Executive Orders or ‘travel bans’\nissued by US President Donald Trump. It argues that one of the key ulterior motives behind these orders is to\nmanoeuvre the…
View article: We need to remove free movement from the vicious circle of security
We need to remove free movement from the vicious circle of security Open
While freedoms, such as the principles of equality and non-discrimination, the presumption of innocence and respect for privacy, undoubtedly still exist, they have been relegated to the margins.
View article: Rethinking Security at the Crossroad of International Relations and Criminology
Rethinking Security at the Crossroad of International Relations and Criminology Open
This article aims to introduce an in-depth conversation between International Relations (IR) and criminology about security practices and security studies. Too often each discipline has ignored the possibility of a dialogue, or has just bo…