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State of the Art. The Nexus between European Neighbourhood Policy and Justice and Home Affairs
Full text linkThe enlargement of the EU to include the ten new member states in Central and Eastern Europe and the two Mediterranean islands on 1 May 2004 and Bulgaria and Romania on 1 January 2007 was the result of a tremendous effort to reconfigure not only the frontiers of Europe, but also the concept of what Europe is. The borders of the EU have been highly unstable since its inception with continuous enlargement process driven by the objectives of peace, stability and prosperity. However, when the logic of stability begins to confound the imaginational and institutional capacities of the EU, a new direction is required. It is at this junction that the neighbourhood policy was developed in March 2003. The mechanism was designed to embrace the neighbours in the Internal Market, but to exclude them from participation in the institutions of the EU. This paper examines to what extent the coincidence of interests of EU citizens and nationals of the neighbours has been realized in the field of movement of persons. It is here that the objective of firm external border controls expressed by the member states’ interior ministries will enter into conflict with the softening of the border for the neighbours. If the authorities of the neighbourhood are persuaded to take repressive action against their own nationals who seek to travel to the EU on the basis of a common fight against irregular migration as part of the ENPs, then the interests of the neighbours’ citizens may not only diverge from those of the EU citizens but also from the actions of their own authorities. In states where the authorities are already in difficulties as regards their popular legitimacy, all too common in some of the neighbours (not to mention member states) this kind of pressure – which may increase popular resentment – may not be conducive to stability. Thus an examination of the European Neighbourhood Plans from the perspective of movement of persons is not only important from a legal perspective, it may be vital to the adoption of a coherent EU policy.European Neighbourhood Policies, European Neighbourhood Plans, Migration, Asylum, Border Management, Visas, Area of Freedom, Security and Justice, Justice and Home Affairs.
The Uses and Abuses of Counter-Terrorism Policies in Europe: The Case of the 'Terrorist Lists'
No full textThe appearance of the EU as a security actor has nowhere been more apparent than in the field of counter-terrorism measures after 11 September 2001. This article looks at the challenges which the EU is facing regarding its new role, taking as an example one of the corner stones of the counter-terrorism measures: the freezing of funds to persons and entities suspected of having links with terrorism. The relationship between the rights of individuals and the legal force necessitated at the EU level by heightened risk has recently been the subject of judicial and political scrutiny. Copyright (c) 2008 The Author(s); Journal compilation (c) 2008 Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
The quest for absolution and immunity
No full text© 2018 selection and editorial matter, Elspeth Guild, Didier Bigo and Mark Gibney; individual chapters, the contributors. The 2002–2009 US government’s global kidnap, secret detention programme and the use of so-called ‘enhanced interrogation techniques’ during the period of secret detention has been largely discussed and detailed since it was revealed. The impressive list of documents and data, as well as internal and public justifications used by the Bush administration to cover one of the United States’ most controversial and noxious operations, have been thoroughly disclosed and analysed not only by NGOs and investigative journalists but also through European and American official inquiries and academic research networks such as the George Washington University’s National Security Archive and the UK Economic and Social Research Council-funded collaborative Rendition Project. Amidst the disturbing discovery of such a secretive CIA-led extraordinary rendition and detention programme, the controversy around whether or not enhanced interrogation techniques constitute cases of torture, as defined by international law, rapidly became a very heated and central topic among human rights legal practitioners and scholars
The development of the EU right to family reunification in the context of international human rights protection
No full textDefence date: 18 July 2003Examining board: Prof. Gráinne de Búrca, Supervisor ; Prof. Elspeth Guild ; Prof. Steve Peers ; Prof. Bruno de WittePDF of thesis uploaded from the Library digitised archive of EUI PhD theses completed between 2013 and 201
Interrogating Europe’s Borders. Reflections from an Academic Career
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208099.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)Farewell speech delivered by Prof. Elspeth Guild, Professor of European Migration Law at Radboud University’s Faculty of Law, on Friday 6 September 2019, 06 september 2019Farewell lecture22 p
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Fronteras en movimiento: ¿Hacia dónde va la seguridad cuando la soberanía migra?
No full textResumen Este artículo interroga la relación de las fronteras inestables – como en el caso de la Unión Europea (UE)– con la seguridad. La Unión Europea (UE) ha lidiado con la cuestión del movimiento de personas, la seguridad y el papel del control fronterizo desde que los controles de las fronteras interiores de los Estados miembros de la UE fueron abolidos en 1995. La presión de los ministerios del Interior de los Estados miembros para percibir el control fronterizo de las personas como fundamento de la seguridad nacional se ha transferido de las fronteras interiores de los Estados miembros a la frontera exterior de la UE. Pero al hacerlo, ha dejado de ser una parte inherente de la soberanía nacional y se ha convertido más bien en un nuevo marco de soberanía que se incorpora a lo que ha sido una organización internacional: la Unión Europea.</jats:p
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