Security and Democracy in Europe after 1989. A Central European Experience.

Moving from inter-state into inner-state security studies paradigm in the post-Cold War Europe or why do security studies require further sociologisation?

The 9/11 as the end of the world of certainty. Securitisation of counter-terrorism policy

Democratic legitimation of the war on terror. European and American views compared

Democracy-Migration-Security (DEMISEC) nexus. A conceptual state-of-the art

Democratic legitimation of the new counter-terrorism policy in the EU. The case of risk assessment-based policy-making in the European counter-terrorism law

Paris, 13 November 2015 and its aftermath as European 9/11? Security - democracy nexus in the EU counter-terrorism policy

Analogical reasoning and the fear of the other. Securitising the migration crisis debate in Central Europe

Democratic rule of law vs. security first debate. Democratic backsliding in Central Europe

Security and democracy in the EU and the Visegrad Group migration crisis policy. Understanding divides

Security-democracy nexus in light of the Russia’s propaganda warfare after annexation of Crimea

Current migration crisis as well as terrorist threat in Europe revealed with ever greater power how much security has been intertwinned with democracy in European security discourse. But this has been the case at least since 1989 or more precisely since the the break up of civil war in former Yugoslavia, disintegration of the Soviet Union and more recently since the so called Arab Spring of 2011 and its implications.

The aim of this seminar is to discuss state-of-the art of both scholarly debate and policy-making concerning the nexus between security and democracy as major dilemma behind profound political transformations in Europe after 1989.

More specifically we shall provide for an in-depth anlaysis of the EU and its member states security policy democratic legitimation related to implications of implosion of the Soviet Union, violent civil war in former Yugoslavia, the Arab Spring of 2011, annexation of Crimea, rise of extremism and populism in Europe after recent wave of terrorist attacks following Paris November the 13th attack and recent migration crisis.

The structure of the seminar comprises of scholarly state of the art analysis and empirical policy making case study analysis. Special emphasis will be given to Central European and more specifically Polish security policy analysis as related to major topics discussed in the class.

Class discussion and oral presentation references:

Stefano Guzzini: A dual history of ‘securitisation’, DIIS, 2015

Sergio Carrera, Elspeth Guild and Valsamis Mitsilegas: Reflections on the Terrorist Attacks in Barcelona, CEPS, August 2017

John Brenkman: The Cultural Contradictions of Democracy. Political Thought since September 11, Introduction, Princeton, 2016

Sofie Roehrig: Risk in EU Counter-Terrorism A Critique of Risk Assessment-Based Policymaking, WISI ONLINE 1/2017

Amnesty International Country Report POLAND, Chapter 3, COUNTER-TERRORISM AND SURVEILLANCE, SUBMISSION TO THE UNITED NATIONS HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE 118TH SESSION, 17 OCT - 04 NOV 2016

András Szalai and Gabriella Gőbl: Securitizing Migration in Contemporary Hungary, CEU, 2015

Attila Ágh: The Deconsolidation of Democracy in East ‑Central Europe: The New World Order and the EU’s Geopolitical Crisis, Politics in Central Europe, Vol. 12, No. 3/2016

Sergio Carrera and Karel Lannoo: We’re in this boat together Time for a Migration Union

Radko Hokovsky, How migrants brought Central Europe together

Sergey Sanovich, Computational Propaganda in Russia: The Origins of Digital Misinformation

Background references:

Baker-Beall Christopher, 2009, The Discursive Construction of EU Counter-Terrorism Policy: Writing the ‘Migrant Other’, Securitisation and Control, “Journal of Contemporary European Research” 5 (2), pp. 188-206.

Beck Ulrich, 2009, World Risk Society and Manufactured Uncertainties, “IRIS. European Journal of Philosophy and Public Debate October”, pp. 291-299.

Bigo Didier, 2002, Security and Immigration: Toward a Critique of the Governmentatlity of Unease, “Alternatives” 27: Special Issue, pp. 63-92.

Bigo Didier, 2008, Security: A Field Left Fallow, [in:] Michael Dillon and Andrew Neal (eds.) Foucoult on Politics, Security and War, New York: Palgrave Macmillan:, pp. 93-114.

Blažek Jan, 2015 Resistance to the securitisation of migration in Hungary: the MIGSZOL network as a case of radical cosmopolitics, www.visegradexperts.eu

Burchill Scott i Andrew Linklater, 2005, Theories of International Relations, New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

Buzan Barry, Weaver Ole and Jaap de Wilde, 1998, Security A New Framework for Analysis. London: Lynne Reinner.

Buzan Barry and Lene Hansen, 2009, The Evolution of International Security Studies, New York: Cambridge University Pres.

Davis Lynn E., 2003. Globalisation’s security implications. RAND Issue Paper.

Debrix Francois and Alex Barder, 2008, Nothing to Fear but Fear: Governmentality and the Production of Terror. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting International Studies Association, Exeter University, 15-17 December.

Delanty Gerard, 1995, Inventing Europe: Idea, Identity, Reality. Macmillan: London.

Fakhoury Tamirace, 2016, Tangled Connections between Migration and Security in the Wake of the Arab Uprisings: A European Perspective, IAI Working Papers

Hubner Danuta, Blockmans Steven, Russack Sophia (eds.), 2017, Regroup and Reform Ideas for a More Responsive and Effective European Union, CEPS, Brussels

Huysmans Jef, 2002, Defining Social Constructivism in Security Studies: The Normative Dilemma of Writing Security, “Alternatives” 27: Special Issue, 41-62.

Huysmans, Jef and Squire, Vicki (2009). Migration and Security. In: Dunn Cavelty, Myriam and Mauer, Victor eds. Handbook of Security Studies. London, UK: Routledge.

Jacobson Arnold, 2013, The Role of Humiliation in International Conflict, “Northern Plains Ethics Journal” (2013) 65.

Leonard Sarah, 2007, The ‘Securitization’ of Asylum and Migration in the European Union: Beyond the Copenhagen School’s Framework

Moïsi Dominique, 2007, The Clash of Emotions, “Foreign Affairs”, January/February

Moïsi Dominique, 2009, The geopolitics of emotion, New York: Doubleday

Munich Security Report 2017 Post-Truth, Post-West, Post-Order? Munich Security Conference Report

Notions of Security. Shifting Concepts and Perspectives. International Terrorism, Security and the Rule of Law, 2007, COT Institute for Safety, Security and Crisis Management, Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research, Fundacion para las Relacio- nes Internacionalesy al Dialogo Exterior, Danish Centre for International Studies and Human Rights, Institute of International Relations Prague, Clingendael Netherlands Institute of International Relations

Pain Rachel, 2009, Globalized fear? Towards an emotional geopolitics, “Progress in Human Geography”, 33 (4). pp. 466-486.

Papadopoulos, Apostolos G. From migration crisis to refugee crisis in Europe: Securitization priorities vs what? Hellenic Observatory Seminar, London School of Economics, January 2016

Sjostedt Roxanna, 2010, Talking Threats. Social construction of national security in Russia and United States, Uppsala: Uppsala University Press.

Snyder Jack, 2004, One World. Rival Theories, “Foreign Policy”, November/December

Turk Austin, 2004, Sociology of Terrorism, “Annual Review of Sociology”, 30, pp. 271-286.

Wendt Alexander, 1995, Constructing International Politics, “International Security” Vol. 20, No. 1 (Summer), pp. 71-81. Wæver Ole, 1995, Securitization and Desecuritization, [in:] Ronnie D. Lipschutz (ed.), On Security. New York: Columbia University Press, pp. 46-86.

Van de Voorde Cecile, 2006, Freedom Fighters, Freedom Haters, Martyrs, and Evildoers: The Social Construction of Suicide Terrorism, Tampa: University of South Florida Press

Order of sesssions in the autumn-winter 2020/21 semester:

13 Oct. Moving from inter-state into inner-state security studies paradigm in the post-Cold War Europe or why do security studies require further sociologisation?

20 Oct. The 9/11 as the end of the world of certainty. Securitisation of counter-terrorism policy

27 Oct. Democratic legitimation of the war on terror. European and American views compared

3 Nov. Democracy-Migration-Security (DEMISEC) nexus. A conceptual state-of-the art

10 Nov. Democratic legitimation of the new counter-terrorism policy in the EU. The case of risk assessment-based policy-making in the European counter-terrorism law

17 Nov. Paris, 13 November 2015 and its aftermath as European 9/11? Security - democracy nexus in the EU counter-terrorism policy

24 Nov. Analogical reasoning and the fear of the other. Securitising the migration crisis debate in Central Europe

1 Dec.. Democratic rule of law vs. security first debate. Democratic backsliding in Central Europe

8 Dec. Security and democracy in the EU and the Visegrad Group migration crisis policy. Understanding divides

15 Dec. Security-democracy nexus in light of the Russia’s propaganda warfare after annexation of Crimea