The Möbius strip of national and world security
The apparently boundless scope of mass surveillance revealed by Snowden beggared the imagination. Not…
Rollback or Legalisation? Mass Surveillance in France and the Snowden Paradox
On June the 5th, it will be exactly three years since Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist…
Is mass surveillance effective in the fight against terrorism?
The impact of 9/11 has produced clear tendencies among political executives to re-establish Intelligence…
It’s the apocalypse… again! Zombies and absurdity in critical security studies
At this point, there’s no really authentic way for us to say who or…
Is “Critical methods” an (oxy)moron?
A repentant preamble I certainly still remember my first apprehensions as a student in…
Trapped by the Technostrategic Situation: Memoirs, British Airpower and the War in Afghanistan
What can we learn from British fighter pilots’ memoirs? Surely, the first element is…
FP7 and H2020 – European Research Funding Security Theme under scrutiny
A report published by the European Parliament LIBE Committee offers a review of the…
Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) – “Learning about security is not suspicious”
“Dear NSA, Privacy is a Fundamental Right, Not Reasonable Suspicion“. We reproduced here a…
Global Preventive Security and its unbearable lightness
This blog spot was first posted on Open Democracy website, on June 3, 2014…
From Alchemy to a ‘Pataphysics of Security?
97 billion pieces of intelligence. That is the quantity of information collected in just one month,…
Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) – “Learning about security is not suspicious”
Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) – “Learning about security is not suspicious”