Bruno Oliveira Martins- PhD
- Senior Researcher at Peace Research Institute Oslo
Bruno Oliveira Martins
- PhD
- Senior Researcher at Peace Research Institute Oslo
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Introduction
I am a senior researcher at PRIO, where I am coordinator of the Security Research Group and a member of the Migration and Law & Ethics Research groups.
Currently, my main research interests lie on the intersection between technological developments, security practices, and societal change. I am interested in several issues within the wider security studies agenda, and I've researched and published widely on EU's security and defence policies, including counter-terrorism, EU-Israel-Palestine relations, and the politics of security and defence research.
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This article focuses on the normalization and institutionalization of (previously) exceptional security measures and the correspondent challenges to the constitutional foundations of Western democracies. It argues that established mechanisms of legal and political accountability are increasingly being challenged by technological development with an...
In November 2022, the European Commission presented its Drone Strategy 2.0 with two main objectives: to build the European Union's (EU's) drone service market and to strengthen the Union's civil, security and defence industry capabilities and synergies. From the Commission's perspective, accelerating the integration of drones in Europe's airspace h...
Existing research on digital technologies in peacebuilding exhibits both tech-solutionist and tech-problematizing traits that tend to understate their embeddedness in society and politics. We argue that the study of digital peacebuilding should instead reflexively engage with the coproduction of the technical and the social in both academia and pra...
The Oxford Handbook of Portuguese Politics brings together the best scholars in the field offering an unrivalled coverage of the politics (broadly defined) of the country over the past 50 years. The Handbook includes eight sections. First, we look at the ‘Past and Present’ by making an overview of Portuguese political developments since democratiza...
This chapter analyses the main pillars of the dominant security and geostrategic thinking in Portugal in both their discursive and policy dimensions. We argue that the country’s security and defence policies are developed within a balance between classical alliances in the North Atlantic, a commitment to European integration, and a postcolonial str...
The European Union’s effort at controlling its external borders is an endeavour that increasingly relies on digital systems: from tools for information gathering and surveillance to systems for communicating between different agencies and across member states. This makes EU borders a key site for the politics of “digital sovereignty” – of controlli...
Contemporary military technologies raise political, ethical and legal questions that stretch beyond the operational dynamics of the battlefield. For this reason, their regulation is a matter of international diplomacy to which armed forces, governments, international institutions, and civil society should contribute. In this context, Norway is face...
Drones have been widely used by public authorities during the COVID-19 pandemic for pandemic-related problems. As an innovative tool with a wide range of potentialities, they have been deemed suitable for an exceptional situation marked by the persistence of social distance. Yet, the turn to new technology to solve problems is a political decision...
In this article we investigate how a particular vision of the future of EU defence has embedded itself into different arenas of EU politics over decades, and is currently gaining material expression in the European Defence Fund (EDF). Through an historiographic approach, we traced the development of a particular narrative on security, innovation, r...
This article contributes to an understanding of how expert technological knowledge impacts the security-migration management nexus at the EU borders. It argues that recent migration flows augmented pre-existing dynamics of growing reliance upon technology in EU border management. These dynamics are assessed through a study of the way emerging techn...
Israel has been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, though not as seriously as other countries in the region. As of 10 June 2020, coronavirus casualties in the country stood at 299, but a June uptick in infections has generated uncertainty. Israel has also put to use highly contested means, setting aside personal rights and protections to a larger d...
Traditionally, the EU has had a supportive function in the Israeli–Palestinian peace process. While the US has taken the diplomatic lead, the EU, like other donor countries such as Norway, has taken on the economic responsibility for constructing Palestinian state-like institutions and has offered diplomatic backing to the two-state solution. This...
This report provides a critical analysis of the typology, procedures, and challenges of counter-drone technology, as well as an assessment of its application in both civilian and military scenarios. Counter-drone technology – or, as it is also designated, C-UAS – refers to systems designed to detect, track, identify and/or intercept unmanned aircra...
The externalisation of European Union migration governance disproportionately impacts states based on the African continent. Much of the analytical focus amongst existing research has been on the agency of the EU and its Member-states, identifying the asymmetric and postcolonial character of these policies, as well as highlighting that the impositi...
The externalization of the EU’s migration policies has seen a sharp increase in recent years but many aspects of its historical roots, internal dynamics, and broader implications remain insufficiently explored. This special issue analyses recent developments in the EU’s external migration policies including the extra-territorial reach of EU migrati...
The yearbook on European integration, compiled by the Institute of European Politics in Berlin, has documented the process of European integration in an up-to-date and detailed way since 1980. The result is a unique record of contemporary European history over a 39 year period. The 2019 edition of the yearbook continues this tradition. In approxima...
This chapter provides a critical overview of European Union (EU) responses to increased terrorist activity in Europe since 2015. We argue that since about 2004 counter-radicalization has become a fundamental dimension of the EU’s preventive counter-terrorism strategies. Our analysis reveals a few important trends in recent EU policy measures includ...
The two books highlight two different views on the way that private security is governed in the African states under review.
In recent years, dozens of drone development projects have attracted hundreds of millions of euros from EU public research funds with little accountability and scarce political oversight. This article relates the ongoing exponential growth of the drone industry in Europe with the vast amounts of EU public research funding channelled to drone resear...
The emergence of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) or drones, as a tool for management of emergency situations, public order and of human, environmental and wildlife security in Latin America raises a host of regulatory and ethical challenges. Based on insights from the Science and technology and the socio-legal studies literatures, the article explor...
This article analyses the background, content and implications of the EU proposal for ‘Special Privileged Partnership’ status to be granted to Israel and the future state of Palestine in the event of a successful conclusion to the peace process. It employs a sociological institutionalist perspective to assess the diplomatic manoeuvring in the broad...
This article assesses the European Union (EU)’s engagement with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and highlights the unintended consequences of the policies pursued by Brussels on this matter. While stressing that Palestinians and Israelis interested in peace face the danger of the banalization of the conflict, the article argues that the current st...
Armed drones – and their usage – are a topic extremely relevant for the EU. Several developments testify to this argument: the recent emergence of targeted killings as a common counter-terrorism technique; the existence of several EU member states using armed and surveillance drones in military scenarios; the presence of member states troops in are...
This article systematizes the reasons that demand EU action on the issue of armed drones and advances a set of parameters that should frame the Union’s policy on the topic. It argues that a clear positioning of Brussels is required due to legal and strategic demands, and also for reasons of consistency with both previous practices in similar events...
Den Europæiske Union (EU) begyndte i september 2001 udviklingen af en tværinstitutionel og multifacetteret tilgang til terrorbekæmpelse. Denne proces er forløbet parallelt med bestræbelserne på at opbygge en strategisk sikkerhedsidentitet for EU. EU’s terrorbekæmpelse omfatter forskellige typer instrumenter og involverer deltagelse af adskillige in...
In the aftermath of the July-August 2014 war in Gaza, the Swedish government officially recognized the state of Palestine. This decision triggered a cascade of resolutions adopted in national parliaments of European Union member states and, eventually, led to the adoption of a European Parliament resolution supporting in principle the recognition o...
This article presents an overview of the current state of affairs of the EU-Israel relations and contributes to an expansion of the research agenda of this field. With a focus on the social and political developments of the last five years, it argues that this relationship exhibits patterns of cooperation and conflict, and attraction and repulsion....
Launched in 1999, the European security and defence policy (ESDP)/common security and defence policy (CSDP) was not conceived as a tool to fight terrorism. This threat was traditionally considered as being of an internal nature and, thus, deemed to be addressed under the European Union's (EU) third pillar. However, the events of 11 September 2011 c...
Having recently completed its first decade of existence, the EU's counter-terrorism policy has been receiving increasing scholarly attention as reflected in the specialized literature devoted to this emerging policy area. Its external dimension, nevertheless, has not been the subject of thorough and systematic analyses which scrutinize its characte...
2009 Jacques Delors Award
