J. Peter Burgess

Architectural details: an ornate iron clock, a steel girder marked 12, Art Nouveau ironwork, a grand iron hall, a cobblestone plaza, and a modernist ramp

Tag: Europe

  • The future of security research in the social sciences and humanities

    Burgess (forthcoming) The future of security research Download here Read more →

  • A threat against Europe?

    A Threat against Europe? Security, Migration, Integration, with Serge Gutwirth (eds.) Brussels: VUB Press. Available here Read more →

  • A necessary naïveté (in Norwegian)

    From Morgenbladet 5 August 2011 Den tidligere lederen til det franske høyreradikale partiet Front National Jean-Marie Le Pen skal ha sagt denne uken at én årsak til terrorangrepet 22. juli var at nordmenn har vært ”naive” om terrortruslene de står overfor. (Aftenposten 31.07). Med dette mener han trolig at nordmenn har vist et uansvarlig mangel… Read more →

  • What is societal security?

    [Speech held for the European Security Research Programme Workshop Security research and Europe’s societal challenges: What do citizens want?, Oslo, 8 June 2011]. 1 Among the many successes of the European Security Research Programme is the growing wisdom and insight into what security actually means in our day. Most prominently this can be seen in… Read more →

  • A Tale of two Europes

    The Human Security Tale of Two Europes. Geopoltics. 24(4) (with Shahrbanou Tadjbakhsh). Access Read more →

  • Europe: The travel advisory

    U.S. State Department issued last Sunday a Terrorism alert aimed at American citizens traveling or planning to travel in Europe until roughly the end of the year. The alert which urges ‘extra caution’ but ‘does not discourage Americans from visiting Europe’, does not actually mention Europeans. Nonetheless it implicates them massively. The advisory is remarkable… Read more →

  • We are all Roma!

    French officials have declared themselves ‘astonished’ after European Commissioner for Justice and Fundamental Rights, Viviane Reding, described as ‘appalling’ the French practice of mass expulsion of Roma groups from French territory. Reding’s comments were a reaction to a 5 August French internal directive instructing police authorities to target Roma for expulsion. The leaked directive was… Read more →

  • Notes on Elspeth Guild

    Notes on Elspeth Guild, Understanding security and migration in the twenty-first century CEPS, 21 October 2009. Download Read more →

  • Values basis for security

    The porosity of security INEX mid-term conference, Brussels, CEPS, 29 November. Download. Read more →

  • Personvern

    Den nye ‘Festung Europa’: Teknologi, personvern og det liberale samfunnet (The new ‘Fortress Europe’: Technology, privacy and liberal society) Sikkerhetsdagene, Trondheim, Norway, 14 November. Download Read more →