The Möbius strip of national and world security
The apparently boundless scope of mass surveillance revealed by Snowden beggared the imagination. Not only in terms…
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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 Glenn Greenwald wrote…
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 agencies’ autonomy and…
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 what to look…
Is “Critical methods” an (oxy)moron?
A repentant preamble I certainly still remember my first apprehensions as a student in History and then…
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 the possibility to…
FP7 and H2020 – European Research Funding Security Theme under scrutiny
A report published by the European Parliament LIBE Committee offers a review of the FP7 Security Measures…
Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) – “Learning about security is not suspicious”
“Dear NSA, Privacy is a Fundamental Right, Not Reasonable Suspicion“. We reproduced here a post produced by…
Global Preventive Security and its unbearable lightness
This blog spot was first posted on Open Democracy website, on June 3, 2014 Security practices and…
From Alchemy to a ‘Pataphysics of Security?
97 billion pieces of intelligence. That is the quantity of information collected in just one month, March 2013, by…
Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) – “Learning about security is not suspicious”
Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) – “Learning about security is not suspicious”