A mutual security regime for Europe?

Abstract This paper offers a critical interpretation of the EU’s recent Maritime Security Strategy (MSS) of 2014, making distinctions between hard and soft conceptions of maritime security. The theoretical approach employed invokes the ‘EU as neo-medieval empire’ (Bull 1977: 254-255; Rennger 2006; Zielonka 2006). By this account, the main objectives of EU maritime strategy are stability and encouragement of globalised maritime trade flows to be achieved using the classic instruments of ‘soft maritime security’. While replete with great possibilities, the EU’s maritime security strategy is likely to be a relatively weak maritime security regime, which suffers from a number of important limits.

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Palestinian Firms’ Status and Employment Under the Israeli Security Regime: Evidence from Establishment Censuses

Peace Economics Peace Science and Public Policy ◽

10.1515/peps-2020-0054 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 0 (0) ◽

Author(s):

Vladimir Hlasny ◽

Shireen AlAzzawi

Keyword(s):

World Bank ◽

Longitudinal Analysis ◽

Physical Violence ◽

Entire Population ◽

Female Employment ◽

Total Employment ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

Security Regime ◽

Israeli Occupation

Abstract The Israeli occupation of Palestine is accompanied by violence and a repressive security regime affecting firms’ operations. We assess firms’ status, and female and total employment during 1997–2017 across region–years seeing differently repressive regimes. Indicators of the security regime come from OCHA-oPt, B’Tselem, and World Bank databases. Data on the entire population of establishments come from five waves of the Palestinian Establishment Census allowing for pooled-cross sectional and limited longitudinal analysis. We find that establishments facing tighter regimes – mobility restrictions, physical violence and building demolitions in their governorate – are more likely to suspend their operations or engage in restructuring, rather than continue operating. Repressive regimes are also associated with falling employment levels and in some cases, falling female employment shares. Repressive regimes are thus damaging to employment in Palestine through several channels. Some establishments do not survive, or enter hibernation. Surviving establishments retain fewer workers.

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Environmental security, regime building and international law in the Nile Basin

Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines ◽

10.1080/00083968.2012.702087 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 46 (2) ◽

pp. 271-287 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Aaron Tesfaye

Keyword(s):

International Law ◽

Environmental Security ◽

Nile Basin ◽

Security Regime

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Materialities between security and privacy: A constructivist account of airport security scanners

Security Dialogue ◽

10.1177/0967010615577855 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 46 (4) ◽

pp. 326-344 ◽

Cited By ~ 16

Author(s):

Govert Valkenburg ◽

Irma van der Ploeg

Keyword(s):

Social Inequalities ◽

Security And Privacy ◽

Airport Security ◽

Privacy And Security ◽

Security Technologies ◽

Policy Choices ◽

Security Regime ◽

Security Problem ◽

Technical Issues ◽

The One

What concepts such as ‘security’ and ‘privacy’ mean in practice is not merely a matter of policy choices or value concepts, but is inherently tied up with the socio-material and technological arrangement of the practices in which they come to matter. In this article, one trajectory in the implementation of a security regime into the sociotechnical arrangement of airport security checking is reconstructed. During this trajectory, gradual modifications or ‘translations’ are performed on what are initially defined as the privacy and security problems. The notion of translation is used to capture the modifications that concepts undergo between different stages of the process: the initial security problem shifts, transforms and comes to be aligned with several other interests and values. We articulate how such translations take place in the material realm, where seemingly technical and natural-scientific givens take part in the negotiations. On the one hand, these negotiations may produce technologies that perform social inequalities. On the other hand, it is in this material realm that translations of problem definitions appear as simply technical issues, exempted from democratic governance. The forms of privacy and security that emerge in the end are thus specific versions with specific social effects, which do not follow in an obvious way from the generic, initial concepts. By focusing on problem definitions and their translations at various stages of the development, we explain how it is possible for potentially stigmatizing and privacy-encroaching effects to occur, even though the security technologies were introduced exactly to preclude those effects.

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