Conference with Prof. Didier Georgakakis 6 May, 3:30 – 5:30pm, K2.31 Nash Lecture Theatre, 2nd Floor King’s Building, Strand Campus The Research Centre for International Relations (RCIR) is delighted to host Prof. Georgakakis (Université Paris - la Sorbonne) who will deliver a talk on the field of Eurocracy. This event is organised in the framework… Continue reading The field of Eurocracy
Tag: European Union
Explaining the EU’s Resilience Turn: A Not So Special Tool of a Somewhat Special Actor
Author: Jonathan Joseph, University of Sheffield The idea of resilience has become a popular idea across a range of policy areas and in the fields of international development and disaster risk reduction (DRR) in particular. Simply put, resilience, at least in this policy area, can be defined as our ability to withstand, adapt to, and… Continue reading Explaining the EU’s Resilience Turn: A Not So Special Tool of a Somewhat Special Actor
SAPIENT Policy Meeting and EIRSS Summer School, 2-13 September 2013
Authors: Isabel Rocha de Siqueira and Emma Mc Cluskey In September 2013, the Research Centre for International Relations at King’s College London (RCIR-KCL), the SAPIENT project, coordinated by Prof. Didier Bigo (KCL), and the University of Kent, in Brussels, organised two parallel events in Brussels: a Policy Meeting on Smart Borders, sponsored by the SAPIENT… Continue reading SAPIENT Policy Meeting and EIRSS Summer School, 2-13 September 2013
Temporalising Difference, Spatialising Time, In/Securing the Mediterranean
Author: Pinar Bilgin Recent immigrants deaths on the coasts of Italy have, once again, brought Mediterranean as a source of in/security to European Union's agenda. As member states discuss what needs to be done to better 'secure' European borders against immigrants, the more complex questions about 'how' and 'why' immigrants travel from southern to northern… Continue reading Temporalising Difference, Spatialising Time, In/Securing the Mediterranean
The Politics of (In)visibility: Governance-Resistance of Refugees
Author: Leonie Ansems de Vries Migrants and refugees are in the spotlight across the globe. To give only a snapshot of recent news coverage: Millions of people are fleeing Syria; two overcrowded boats carrying refugees capsized near Lampedusa earlier this month; the Australian government sends asylum seekers to Papua New Guinea under a new ‘offshore… Continue reading The Politics of (In)visibility: Governance-Resistance of Refugees
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