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Routledge eBooks, Jul 14, 2021

Routledge eBooks, Jul 14, 2021

The part-time Cybersecurity program balances theory with practice, providing students with the hi... more The part-time Cybersecurity program balances theory with practice, providing students with the highly technical knowledge and skills needed to protect and defend information systems from attack. Students choose from tracks that explore cyber attacks from within a system, protect information assets, and identify anomalies and unexpected patterns. Courses are offered at the Applied Physics Laboratory and online.

Routledge eBooks, Jul 14, 2021

Routledge eBooks, Jun 9, 2022

The first two decades of EU counterterrorism policy are emblematic of the emergence of an interna... more The first two decades of EU counterterrorism policy are emblematic of the emergence of an internal-external security nexus. This has occurred through the EU's collective securitization of terrorism as a transboundary threat that blurs the traditional divide between internal and external security requiring multidimensional and transboundary EU counterterrorism policies and practises. The EU's status quo discourse of terrorism as primarily a national and internal security threat to be dealt with by domestic security agencies has transformed into strategic discourses, policies and practices that frame terrorism as a transnational threat to the EU requiring a transnational response that integrates internal and external policies, institutions, and capabilities. While institutional silos, turf wars, and differing institutional cultures continue to hamper the routinization of a transboundary response, this collective securitization of terrorism as a transboundary threat, within a wider internal-external security nexus, is reshaping the nature of the EU as a security actor.

Routledge eBooks, Jul 14, 2021

The EU Security Continuum, 2021

Manchester University Press eBooks, Jul 30, 2018

This assesses the impact of EU enlargement on both pre-existing security arrangements and key rel... more This assesses the impact of EU enlargement on both pre-existing security arrangements and key relationships with the EU's new partners and "neighbors". It also investigates both hard and soft and internal and external security issues, ranging from military intervention to terrorism and from organized crime to human rights. From this it concludes that enlargement has both positive and negative implications for European security.

This thesis explores the modes of subjectivation and the forms of power encompassed by the episte... more This thesis explores the modes of subjectivation and the forms of power encompassed by the epistemic category of the secular with specific reference to recent controversies over Islam in Europe. The inquiry moves from the observation that contemporary reflections on postsecularity conceived as a normative ideal of inclusion of religious sensibilities in secular societies tend not to be grounded in an exploration of the constitution of the moral subject under conditions of secularity. Accordingly, the key questions driving this thesis are: How does the secular episteme as a power/knowledge formation based on the separation between knowledge and faith affect the process of constitution of the secular subject, with specific reference to his/her practices of solidarity and exclusion? And, how is it possible to conceive the postsecular? Drawing on Michel Foucault and engaging with the work of scholars such as Talal Asad, José Casanova, Thomas Aquinas, René Descartes, Immanuel Kant, Émile Durkheim, Max Weber, Charles Taylor, Roberto Esposito, Jürgen Habermas, Pope Benedict XVI, William Connolly, and Martin Buber, I suggest that the process of secular subjectivation is characterised by a triple process of withdrawal from the empirical other, from the senses and from the transcendent Other/God that confines the self in an iron cage of subjectivity, and accounts for an immunitary reaction towards those perceived to be ‘other’. This framework is employed to read some recent controversies over Islam in Europe, including the French controversy over the headscarf, the publication of the so-called Danish cartoons, and the speech of Pope Benedict XVI at the University of Regensburg. Drawing on this analysis, the thesis concludes by laying down the foundations of a post-immunitary model of postsecularity that, through the recovery of the subject’s embodies dimension and the reappropriation of the transcendent Other/God as a common medium of identification between self and other, may help directing the always imperfect knowledge of the other into an act of love and pluralism’s disconcerting flow of becoming into possibilities of life yet to come.EThOS - Electronic Theses Online ServiceGBUnited Kingdo

The EU Security Continuum, 2021

This book examines how internal and external security are blurring at the EU level, and the impli... more This book examines how internal and external security are blurring at the EU level, and the implications this has for EU security governance and the EU as a security actor. The EU claims that 'internal and external security are inseparable' and requires a more integrated approach. This book critically assesses this claim in relation to the threats facing the EU, its responses to them, and the practical and normative implications for EU security governance and actorness. It sets out a novel conceptual framework-the EU security continuum-to examine the ways and extent to which internal and external security are blurring along three axes: geographic, bureaucratic, and functional. This is done through an analysis of four key security issues: regional conflict, terrorism, organised crime, and cybersecurity. The book demonstrates that, to varying degrees, these security threats and/or responses do transcend boundaries. However, institutional turf wars and capability silos hamper the EU's Integrated Approach and, therefore, its management of transboundary security threats. Yet, the EU's pursuit of an integrated approach is reframing its claimed normative distinctiveness towards a more practical one, based on a transnational and multidimensional approach. Such a rearticulation, if implemented, would make the EU a genuinely transboundary security actor, properly structured and equipped to tackle the 21st century's internal-external security continuum. This book will be of much interest to students of European Security, EU politics, and international relations.

Choice Reviews Online

OWA UROPEAN ARMY A MILITARY POWER IN THE MAKING? Trevor C. Salmon & Alistair JK Shepherd ... ... more OWA UROPEAN ARMY A MILITARY POWER IN THE MAKING? Trevor C. Salmon & Alistair JK Shepherd ... TOWARD A EUROPEAN ARMY This On© GNAG-LWW-XAPT ... TOWARD A EUROPEAN ARMY A Military Power in the Making? Trevor C. Salmon Alistair JK Shepherd BOULDER ...

Key Words: Social Sciences, DIP, UG Year 1, UG Year 3, Group Work, Peer Feedback, Welsh Medium De... more Key Words: Social Sciences, DIP, UG Year 1, UG Year 3, Group Work, Peer Feedback, Welsh Medium Delivery

Key Words: Social Sciences, DIP, UG Year 3, Group Work, Deep Learning, Reflective Learning, Stude... more Key Words: Social Sciences, DIP, UG Year 3, Group Work, Deep Learning, Reflective Learning, Student-Led Learning

Key Words: Social Sciences, DIP, Student Engagement, Student-Centred Learning, Active Learning, G... more Key Words: Social Sciences, DIP, Student Engagement, Student-Centred Learning, Active Learning, Group Work, Deep Learning

European Security, 2003

The European Union (EU) has declared its European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP) operational.... more The European Union (EU) has declared its European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP) operational. It has put the institutional structures in place to manage the political aspects of security and defence policy and the member-states have pledged a range of military capabilities, which the EU may call upon. However there are significant issues that need to be resolved for the ESDP to be a truly effective and credible policy. On the whole, these issues revolve around military capabilities, defence spending and a strategic concept. Without investing in critical military capabilities and without a clear direction, ESDP will become a policy without substance.

OWA UROPEAN ARMY A MILITARY POWER IN THE MAKING? Trevor C. Salmon & Alistair JK Shepherd ... TOWA... more OWA UROPEAN ARMY A MILITARY POWER IN THE MAKING? Trevor C. Salmon & Alistair JK Shepherd ... TOWARD A EUROPEAN ARMY This On© GNAG-LWW-XAPT ... TOWARD A EUROPEAN ARMY A Military Power in the Making? Trevor C. Salmon Alistair JK Shepherd BOULDER ...

Routledge eBooks, Jul 14, 2021

Routledge eBooks, Jul 14, 2021

The part-time Cybersecurity program balances theory with practice, providing students with the hi... more The part-time Cybersecurity program balances theory with practice, providing students with the highly technical knowledge and skills needed to protect and defend information systems from attack. Students choose from tracks that explore cyber attacks from within a system, protect information assets, and identify anomalies and unexpected patterns. Courses are offered at the Applied Physics Laboratory and online.

Routledge eBooks, Jul 14, 2021

Routledge eBooks, Jun 9, 2022

The first two decades of EU counterterrorism policy are emblematic of the emergence of an interna... more The first two decades of EU counterterrorism policy are emblematic of the emergence of an internal-external security nexus. This has occurred through the EU's collective securitization of terrorism as a transboundary threat that blurs the traditional divide between internal and external security requiring multidimensional and transboundary EU counterterrorism policies and practises. The EU's status quo discourse of terrorism as primarily a national and internal security threat to be dealt with by domestic security agencies has transformed into strategic discourses, policies and practices that frame terrorism as a transnational threat to the EU requiring a transnational response that integrates internal and external policies, institutions, and capabilities. While institutional silos, turf wars, and differing institutional cultures continue to hamper the routinization of a transboundary response, this collective securitization of terrorism as a transboundary threat, within a wider internal-external security nexus, is reshaping the nature of the EU as a security actor.

Routledge eBooks, Jul 14, 2021

The EU Security Continuum, 2021

Manchester University Press eBooks, Jul 30, 2018

This assesses the impact of EU enlargement on both pre-existing security arrangements and key rel... more This assesses the impact of EU enlargement on both pre-existing security arrangements and key relationships with the EU's new partners and "neighbors". It also investigates both hard and soft and internal and external security issues, ranging from military intervention to terrorism and from organized crime to human rights. From this it concludes that enlargement has both positive and negative implications for European security.

This thesis explores the modes of subjectivation and the forms of power encompassed by the episte... more This thesis explores the modes of subjectivation and the forms of power encompassed by the epistemic category of the secular with specific reference to recent controversies over Islam in Europe. The inquiry moves from the observation that contemporary reflections on postsecularity conceived as a normative ideal of inclusion of religious sensibilities in secular societies tend not to be grounded in an exploration of the constitution of the moral subject under conditions of secularity. Accordingly, the key questions driving this thesis are: How does the secular episteme as a power/knowledge formation based on the separation between knowledge and faith affect the process of constitution of the secular subject, with specific reference to his/her practices of solidarity and exclusion? And, how is it possible to conceive the postsecular? Drawing on Michel Foucault and engaging with the work of scholars such as Talal Asad, José Casanova, Thomas Aquinas, René Descartes, Immanuel Kant, Émile Durkheim, Max Weber, Charles Taylor, Roberto Esposito, Jürgen Habermas, Pope Benedict XVI, William Connolly, and Martin Buber, I suggest that the process of secular subjectivation is characterised by a triple process of withdrawal from the empirical other, from the senses and from the transcendent Other/God that confines the self in an iron cage of subjectivity, and accounts for an immunitary reaction towards those perceived to be ‘other’. This framework is employed to read some recent controversies over Islam in Europe, including the French controversy over the headscarf, the publication of the so-called Danish cartoons, and the speech of Pope Benedict XVI at the University of Regensburg. Drawing on this analysis, the thesis concludes by laying down the foundations of a post-immunitary model of postsecularity that, through the recovery of the subject’s embodies dimension and the reappropriation of the transcendent Other/God as a common medium of identification between self and other, may help directing the always imperfect knowledge of the other into an act of love and pluralism’s disconcerting flow of becoming into possibilities of life yet to come.EThOS - Electronic Theses Online ServiceGBUnited Kingdo

The EU Security Continuum, 2021

This book examines how internal and external security are blurring at the EU level, and the impli... more This book examines how internal and external security are blurring at the EU level, and the implications this has for EU security governance and the EU as a security actor. The EU claims that 'internal and external security are inseparable' and requires a more integrated approach. This book critically assesses this claim in relation to the threats facing the EU, its responses to them, and the practical and normative implications for EU security governance and actorness. It sets out a novel conceptual framework-the EU security continuum-to examine the ways and extent to which internal and external security are blurring along three axes: geographic, bureaucratic, and functional. This is done through an analysis of four key security issues: regional conflict, terrorism, organised crime, and cybersecurity. The book demonstrates that, to varying degrees, these security threats and/or responses do transcend boundaries. However, institutional turf wars and capability silos hamper the EU's Integrated Approach and, therefore, its management of transboundary security threats. Yet, the EU's pursuit of an integrated approach is reframing its claimed normative distinctiveness towards a more practical one, based on a transnational and multidimensional approach. Such a rearticulation, if implemented, would make the EU a genuinely transboundary security actor, properly structured and equipped to tackle the 21st century's internal-external security continuum. This book will be of much interest to students of European Security, EU politics, and international relations.

Choice Reviews Online

OWA UROPEAN ARMY A MILITARY POWER IN THE MAKING? Trevor C. Salmon & Alistair JK Shepherd ... ... more OWA UROPEAN ARMY A MILITARY POWER IN THE MAKING? Trevor C. Salmon & Alistair JK Shepherd ... TOWARD A EUROPEAN ARMY This On© GNAG-LWW-XAPT ... TOWARD A EUROPEAN ARMY A Military Power in the Making? Trevor C. Salmon Alistair JK Shepherd BOULDER ...

Key Words: Social Sciences, DIP, UG Year 1, UG Year 3, Group Work, Peer Feedback, Welsh Medium De... more Key Words: Social Sciences, DIP, UG Year 1, UG Year 3, Group Work, Peer Feedback, Welsh Medium Delivery

Key Words: Social Sciences, DIP, UG Year 3, Group Work, Deep Learning, Reflective Learning, Stude... more Key Words: Social Sciences, DIP, UG Year 3, Group Work, Deep Learning, Reflective Learning, Student-Led Learning

Key Words: Social Sciences, DIP, Student Engagement, Student-Centred Learning, Active Learning, G... more Key Words: Social Sciences, DIP, Student Engagement, Student-Centred Learning, Active Learning, Group Work, Deep Learning

European Security, 2003

The European Union (EU) has declared its European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP) operational.... more The European Union (EU) has declared its European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP) operational. It has put the institutional structures in place to manage the political aspects of security and defence policy and the member-states have pledged a range of military capabilities, which the EU may call upon. However there are significant issues that need to be resolved for the ESDP to be a truly effective and credible policy. On the whole, these issues revolve around military capabilities, defence spending and a strategic concept. Without investing in critical military capabilities and without a clear direction, ESDP will become a policy without substance.

OWA UROPEAN ARMY A MILITARY POWER IN THE MAKING? Trevor C. Salmon & Alistair JK Shepherd ... TOWA... more OWA UROPEAN ARMY A MILITARY POWER IN THE MAKING? Trevor C. Salmon & Alistair JK Shepherd ... TOWARD A EUROPEAN ARMY This On© GNAG-LWW-XAPT ... TOWARD A EUROPEAN ARMY A Military Power in the Making? Trevor C. Salmon Alistair JK Shepherd BOULDER ...