Challenge - www.libertysecurity.org

The Changing Landscape of European Insecurity

Le programme Challenge

Challenge (The changing Landscape of European (In)security) est un programme interdisciplinaire de recherche rassemblant 23 universités et laboratoires de recherche sélectionnés dans 14 pays de l’Union européenne . Il est financé par la Commission européenne à hauteur de 1,4 millions d’euros pour une durée de 5 ans (06.2004-06.2009) dans le cadre du 6ème PCRD (programme cadre de recherche et développement). Sciences-Po Paris en est un acteur clé en assurant la coordination scientifique et en hébergeant une équipe de recherche au sein du Centre d’études et de recherches internationales (CERI).

Les chercheurs du programme Challenge analysent, aux plans conceptuel, empirique et de la prise de décision, les transformations des pratiques de sécurité en Europe pour aider à la reformulation des politiques de sécurité dans le souci de préserver les libertés publiques et la cohésion sociale. Les recherches qu’ils conduisent puisent tout à la fois dans la sociologie politique, la théorie politique, le droit, les relations internationales et les politiques publiques. Elles sont organisées au sein de 15 workpackages (WP) thématiques et ont pour principaux objectifs :

  • de permettre une meilleure compréhension du brouillage entre sécurité intérieure et sécurité extérieure et d’évaluer les transformations à l’œuvre dans la relation entre sécurité et liberté en Europe ;
  • d’analyser le rôle et les transformations des différentes institutions dotées de prérogatives de sécurité ;
  • de faciliter et promouvoir un nouveau réseau interdisciplinaire de recherche travaillant sur la re-conceptualisation et l’analyse des nombreuses implications théorique, politique, sociologique et juridique liées aux nouvelles formes de violence ;

Les équipes de recherche du programme organisent régulièrement des conférences sur leur thème de recherche ainsi que des séminaires plus restreints auxquels sont conviés des professionnels de la sécurité et des représentants des organisations non gouvernementales. En cela, Challenge se pose aussi en interface des milieux institutionnels, académiques et des ONG.

L’Observatoire Challenge

Au travers de l’Observatoire Challenge, les équipes européennes du programme assurent un suivi permanent des politiques de sécurité en aidant à la visualisation des transformations en cours en matière de sécurité et d’atteinte aux libertés publiques. Il arrive aussi en appui des recherches conduites dans le programme par la mise en partage des données recueillies par chacune des équipes. Il permet enfin de tenir ces données à dispositions d’un publique large au travers du site Internet du programme : www.libertysecurity.org.

Quelques publications du programme Challenge

  • D. Bigo et A. Tsoukala (2008), Terror, Insecurity and Liberty, Illiberal practices of liberal regimes after 9/11, collection Liberty and Security Studies, Routledge, London
  • D. Bigo, S. Carrera, E. Guild et R.J.B Walker, Challenge Mid Term report, International Social Science Journal, Dilemmas is Nation-building, issue 192, June 2008, Wiley-Blackwell and UNESCO
  • Cesari, J (2007), “The Hybrid and Globalized Islam of Western Europe”, in Yunas Samad and Kasturi Sen (ed), Islam in the European Union, Transnationalism, Youth and the War on Terror, Oxford University Press, Karachi, pp.108-122
  • E. Guild (Ed) (2006), Constitutional Challenges to the European Arrest Warrant, Centre for Migration Law, Wolf Legal Publishers: Nijmegen.
  • T. Balzacq and S. Carrera (eds) (2006), Security versus Freedom? A Challenge for Europe’s Future, Ashgate: Hampshire.
  • E. Guild and P. Minderhoud (eds.) (2006), 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, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers.
  • S. Carrera (2006) (ed), The Nexus between Immigration, Integration and Citizenship in the EU, Collective Conference Volume, CHALLENGE Series, Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS): Brussels.
  • D. Dieben and T. Dieben (2005), When does war become crime? Aspects of Criminal Case against Eric O, Centre for Migration Law, Wolf Legal Publishers: Nijmegen.
  • D. Bigo and E. Guild (eds.) (2005), Controlling Frontiers: Free Movement into and within Europe, London: Ashgate.
  • T. Balzacq and S. Carrera (2005), Migration, Borders and Asylum: Trends and Vulnerabilities in EU Policy, Centre for European Policy Studies: CEPS, Brussels.
  • R. Bergalli and I.Rivera Beiras (2005) Política Criminal de la Guerra, Desafio (s) n.1, Anthropos Editorial: Barcelona.
  • R. Bergalli and I.Rivera Beiras (2006) Torturas y abuso de poder, Desafio (s) n.2, Anthropos Editorial: Barcelona.
  • R. Bergalli and I.Rivera Beiras (2006) Emergencias Urbanas, Desafio (s) n.3/4, Anthropos Editorial: Barcelona.
  • Conflitti globali, «Internamenti» (Internments), Volume 4, December 2006
  • Numéros spéciaux dans des revues académiques: International Social Science Journa, Conflitti Globali, Central European Political Science Review, Quarterly of Central European Political Science Association, European Journal of Migration and Law, Security Dialogue, European Journal of Crime, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice, Journal of International Migrations, Encyclopedia of Religion and Politics, Theory and Politics in Organization, etc.

Le programme Challenge est également en train de mettre en place une collection spéciale en langue anglaise chez un grand éditeur. Elle constituera un lieu de publication pour l’ensemble des travaux du programme.

GARNET - www.garnet-eu.org

Global Governance, Regionalisation & Regulation

Institutional and political crises in the governance and regulation of the world order under conditions of globalisation are strong. They are exacerbated by the renewed salience of the security agenda and subsequent tensions that have emerged in inter-regional relations (especially across the Atlantic post September 11, 2003) since that time. Thus there is need for European analysts and practitioners undertaking scholarly and policy-oriented research on the theory and practice of global regulation across the economic and security domains to come together in a coordinated and systemic process of dialogue. The EU is the most institutionalised regional policy community and complex system of governance beyond the territorial state, but research on regulation and multi-level governance, although sophisticated, is fragmented, weakly coordinated, and often detached from wider questions of an extra-European nature.

GARNET’s aim is to combat this fragmentation and weak coordination by developing a multi-dimensional, multi-disciplinary network of scientific excellence of researchers, analysts and practitioners with expertise in key issues and themes in global and regional governance. Particular focus will be on those elements of the global regulatory framework (trade, finance, security) that (to a greater or lesser extent) structure the modern world system. At the very least, GARNET will create a critical mass of European researchers able to interact on more equal terms and in wider global contexts, with the erstwhile dominant research communities in the USA. In sum, GARNET will create a European research area on governance, regulation and the relationship between multilateralism and regionalism.

Four themes will guide GARNET’s integrating activities:
  • (i) the theory and practice of regionalism and regionalisation;
  • (ii) the identification of key elements in the regulatory framework of governance, especially how best to enhance collective action problem solving at regional and global levels;
  • (iii) policy issues in global governance: notably those concerned with overcoming problems in the governance of trade, finance, security, environment, technology, development, social production and gender inequality, and disease;
  • (iv) the role of the EU in the advancement of research and policy in themes (i)-(iii).
These tasks will be undertaken via the development of a virtual network, the development of a series of common databases, an annual international conference, a program of scholarly mobility; a network of PhD schools, capacity building, the dissemination of excellence in its areas of expertise and the development of a series of jointly executed research activities around its themes.

Unlike the United States, which operates in international policy arenas as a unitary actor, Europe has yet to find common supra-national form. Moreover the US scholarly community exhibits a methodological and philosophical coherence not to be found in Europe. Europe speaks with pluralist voices on issues of governance and regulation and even lacks a forum in which such voices might mix. GARNET aspires to harness and consolidate this pluralist vitality of voices on a Europe-wide scale. It will build a stronger, more self-consciously European research community on global governance as a precursor to improving both scholarly presentation and representation, with all the attendant downstream implications for the coherence of policy-making that such improvement in the communication and interaction of knowledge would imply.

Mercury - www.mercury-fp7.net

Multilateralism & the EU in the Contemporary Global Order

 ‘MERCURY: Multilateralism and the EU in the Contemporary Global Order’, is a new three-year collaborative research project under the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Commission that began in March 2009. Involving nine institutional partners with a total budget of €1.96 million it is coordinated by the University of Edinburgh, under the research directorship of Prof. John Peterson. MERCURY is emphatically interdisciplinary, drawing on expertise in law, politics, economics and international relations.

MERCURY’s primary research questions flow from the EU’s ostensible commitment to multilateralism:

  1. How should we understand multilateralism, both historically and in contemporary terms?
  2. Does the EU live up to its ambitions to contribute to effective multilateralism globally?
  3. What lessons can be drawn from Europe’s experience of promoting multilateralism?

As well as involvement in all project activities, the CERI is directly responsible, with the Italian Institute of International Affairs, for Work Package IV of the project on Europe and the Far Abroad. For this work package the CERI will undertake two case studies: one on Chinese entry into the WTO (a study in cooperation with Fudan University, Shanghai) and another on the pertinence of the concept of “interregionalism” in an analysis of Asia-Europe relations. Within the CERI, David Camroux is the academic coordinator and Roxana Vermel in charge of administrative matters for the project.
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