Emmanuel-Pierre Guittet

• PhD Politics and International Relations
• Research Associate at Centre d'Etudes sur les Conflits liberté et sécurité

En matière de droit pénal et de droit de la procédure pénale, ces vingt dernières années ont été marquées par deux mutations majeures : le rapprochement du droit pénal et du droit des conflit armés d’une part et la prépondérance des logiques de prévention et d’anticipation d’autre part. La guerre au terrorisme a contribué à remettre en cause les fo...

From the threats posed by austerity and the fears around global migration to the unsettled notion of resistance, our political world is permeated with anxieties. But what does this mean for our everyday lived political experience? Do governments provoke or encourage a sense of anxiety as a form of control and power? How do citizens react to, comply...

This book brings together a number of contributions that look into the political regulation of movement and analyses that engage the material enablers of and constraints on such movement. It attempts to bridge theoretical perspectives from critical security studies and political geography in order to provide a more comprehensive perspective on secu...

From the threats posed by austerity and the fears around global migration to the unsettled notion of resistance, our political world is permeated with anxieties. But what does this mean for our everyday lived political experience? Do governments provoke or encourage a sense of anxiety as a form of control and power? How do citizens react to, comply...

From the threats posed by austerity and the fears around global migration to the unsettled notion of resistance, our political world is permeated with anxieties. But what does this mean for our everyday lived political experience? Do governments provoke or encourage a sense of anxiety as a form of control and power? How do citizens react to, comply...

This book presents an overview and evaluation of contemporary research in international political sociology (IPS). Bringing together leading scholars from many disciplines and diverse geographical backgrounds, it provides unprecedented coverage of the key concepts and research through which IPS has opened up new ways of thinking about international...

Speaking about the international, identifying its specificity, has commonly depended on multiple fragmentations: levels of analysis to distinguish the internal from the international, and particular individuals from both; disciplinary boundaries that differentiate international relations from anthropology (confined to localized peoples of marginal int...

The epilogue makes an effort to close the bracket that this introduction has opened. Arguing from the disciplinary perspective of critical security studies, it takes a step back and evaluates which lessons can be learned from an agenda of security/mobility. The epilogue underlines the need for critical security studies to incorporate the notion of...

Amongst the plethora of theoretical objects and approaches, is there one methodology in particular which answers the critical imperatives of security studies? Critical Security Studies Know How aims to open up a space for dialogue on how methods are put into practice, how methodological practices confront reality and on ‘methodological bricolage’ a...

This paper examines the EU's counter-terrorism policies responding to the Paris attacks of 13 November 2015. It argues that these events call for a rethink of the current information-sharing and preventive-justice model guiding the EU's counter-terrorism tools, along with security agencies such as Europol and Eurojust. Priority should be given to i...

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how representation of war works in a contemporary world saturated with images of violence?

This paper examines the EU counterterrorism policy responses to the attacks in Paris, 7-9 January 2015. It provides an overview of the main EU-level initiatives that have been put forward in the weeks following the events and that will be discussed in the informal European Council meeting of 12 February 2015. The paper argues that a majority of the...

This article is an attempt to assess what a stimulating and serious course on terrorism should and should not be. The article is divided into three sections. The first examines the profusion of academic literature on terrorism, particularly with regard to providing students with the tools to separate the wheat from the chaff. At the heart of this s...

This article questions the fashionable view that Northern Ireland is a counterinsurgency lesson to be learned for the global ‘war on terror’. It suggests that Britain’s involvement in the Northern Ireland conflict – one of the longest conflicts within Europe in which a government has been at war with a clandestine organization – can be regarded as...

The present study examines the steps taken since the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty in the field of internal security and assesses commitments made in the areas of fundamental rights and civil liberties. The study examines the development of the EU Internal Security Strategy, with special attention paid to fighting terrorism and organised cr...

This essay adopts a sociological approach to security. It develops an international political sociology of security practices, subsuming elements from constructivist approaches to security, such as the Aberystwyth, Copenhagen, and Paris approaches (Wæver 2004; c.a.s.e. collective 2006; Bigo 2008). Following the path of a collective intellectual, di...

This chapter deals with the issue of security technologies, and the relationship between security and technology. We start by examining how the question of technology has become a stake for contemporary security studies, discussing in particular the so-called 'critical approaches' to security (CASE Collective 2006). We suggest that while the uses a...

This article considers the history of the Spanish political pacts against terrorism and the political contexts in which they have been implemented since the beginning of the 1980s. This sociohistorical approach is necessary in order to understand the current Spanish unanimous repudiation of terrorism. It suggests that these political pacts helped b...

In the last decade, critical approaches have substantially reshaped the theoretical landscape of security studies in Europe. Yet, despite an impressive body of literature, there remains fundamental disagreement as to what counts as critical in this context. Scholars are still arguing in terms of ‘schools’, while there has been an increasing and sus...

The natural solidarity against terrorism between European democratic societies, taken as a discourse, has no difficulties to assert itself given its « obviousness ». The obviousness of the threat indeed makes the obviousness of the reply: everyone cooperates against the one enemy everyone admits being such. If we are to analyze this discourse of au...

Ce nouveau numéro de Cultures & Conflits sur " Militaires et sécurité intérieure. L'Irlande du Nord comme métaphore " poursuit la réflexion sur la participation des militaires à la sécurité intérieure entamée dans le numéro 44 de la revue sous le titre " Défense et identités. Un contexte sécuritaire global ? ". Il analyse les moments où les militai...

This contribution recounts the history of the British military intervention in Ireland and later in Northern Ireland, and aims at emphasizing the evolutions of the general approach adopted by the armed forces in this-these territory(ies). By obeying to London’s political power, the army followed the official discourse of an aid to the civil power,...

Didier Bigo and Emmanuel-Pierre Guittet discuss Northern Ireland as the experience of a democracy in which politicians have infringed the State’s legal frame in the name of an exceptional situation of violence. The authors thereby present Northern Ireland as a metaphor to understand the relationship between discourses in situations of exception and...

The object of this paper is to question the logic of generalised suspicion in indictment and detention procedures in the context of the war on terrorism, in order to understand the legal oscillation between resistance and deference to intelligence data in the judgment of terrorist acts. To illustrate these various forms of judicial resistance/defer...