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Lessons for critical security studies?
Emmanuel-Pierre Guittet

of mobility. However, as a contributor to this literature I must confess that the concept of mobility itself was something of a second-order concern. The third trend in which mobility figures large is driven by an interest in analysing the narratives of threat and risk in relation to migration, circulation, and freedom of movement (Guild and Bigo 2005 ). In many ways, the

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Virtuousness, virtuality and virtuosity in NATO’s representation of the Kosovo campaign
Andreas Behnke

’. The rest of the pre-air-strike narrative provides a tale of institutional networking, with hypertext links to UN Security Council Resolutions 1199 and 1203, to the Contact Group, as well as to the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE). NATO supported the OSCE by providing a military task force for use in a possible emergency evacuation of members of the Kosovo Verification

in Mapping European security after Kosovo
Data becoming risk information
Nathaniel O’Grady

throughout Britain, the IRS includes data import and export functions to two key sites of fire governance that submit data as fire incidents unfold. The IRS is connected, firstly, to local FRS control rooms, which oversee and coordinate response by communicating with the public and operative FRS response personnel. Control rooms generate for the IRS what are called narrative logs; a recording of all data communicated to

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Ontological coordination and the assessment of consistency in asylum requests
Bruno Magalhães

chapter dwells on the notion of consistency and the impact it has over the outcome of asylum claims. Taking the work of asylum screening in Brazil as a setting, I propose to look at how examiners are steered towards denials when considering the degree of consistency in asylum seeker's narratives. Along with the assessment of legal fit and empirical support, the judgment of

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Kosovo and the Balkanisation–integration nexus
Peter van Ham

setting. It is to open up a field of possible taxonomies and trigger a series of narratives, subjects and appropriate foreign policy responses.’ 15 By conceptualising European security, ‘Europe’ is politically spatialised to represent its own ‘imagined community’, its own hyperreal political stage on which its performative identity may gradually take shape. But by doing

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Security, mobility, liberals, and Christians
Luis Lobo-Guerrero

creatures and things according to an arrangement, the fixation of which stems from God. Yet, humans are conceived as relating to the world and its biblical (hi)story – i.e. the narrative or story of the historical coming into being of the world, including all of its creatures and things – by mental processes, namely, imagination and experience (Bünting 1587 : Advertisement to the reader). As a biblical or

in Security/ Mobility
Sharon Weinblum

broader narratives on mobility, security, sovereignty, and the regime boundaries in Israel. By its object, this chapter is thus also complementary to the important set of studies focused on the border-mobility nexus. However, while these studies have mostly addressed the border either through the prism of exception (Doty 2003 ; Jones 2009 ; Salter 2008 ) or through a Foucauldian lens focused on

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Kosovo and the outlines of Europe’s new order
Sergei Medvedev
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Peter van Ham

in the field. A remarkable uniformity of approach among different authors testifies not so much to the intellectual impotence of the trade as to a lack of reference-points in reconceptualising European security, compelling us to look back and attach our narratives to the Cold War as the last-known paradigm and a foolproof marker of Western identity. Old mental maps are still very much in use for charting the new waters

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A European fin de siècle
Sergei Medvedev

lambs’, the peace movements, the anti-war generation of the 1960s and 1970s, and of former NATO critics like the German Greens 4 who hastily developed their version of the concept of a ‘just war’. It looked as if Europe had re-discovered atavisms of modernity, with essentialist narratives of identity, security, heroic politics and outright militarism. Wasn’t it all about modernity, the war in Kosovo

in Mapping European security after Kosovo
Israeli security experience as an international brand
Erella Grassiani

Schneiker 2014 : 247). These images and stories, in this case, consist of combat and security experience of security personnel connected to the PSCs. These are the narratives that give experience, products, and agents (security capital) their special value (symbolic capital) and finally their economic capital. Israel as a nation of security experts Israel’s state and society

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