People from the Paris meeting drafted a manifesto for the second generation of Critical Approaches to Security, which is forthcoming in Security Dialogue, a major journal in critical security studies.

The Tampere seminar successfully sustained the CASE knowledge network. Besides a significant presence of people already active in the c.a.s.e. collective, new people joined the network in Tampere. This confirmed that the c.a.s.e. collective does appeal to a wider group of researchers and is capable of integrating them into the network.

In total 35 people participated in the seminar. 24 were doctoral students and younger researchers based at universities in seven different European Countries. Three participants were from non-European countries.

The aim of the seminar was to enhance dialogue between different schools of Critical Approaches to Security in Europe (CASE), focusing on the political aspects of insecurities. After the Cold War the CASE redrafted the agenda of European Security Studies. They focused on the conceptual analysis of security, social construction of threats and politics of insecurity. Various schools of CASE were united by their opposition to traditional approaches to security and strategic studies, but divided by their epistemological, ontological and methodological foundations. Using various forms of Critical Theory, Constructivism and Post-Structuralism these approaches began to examine production of insecurity as political practice. Consequently, the concepts such as exception, emergency and emancipation gained prominence within the critical agenda.

For the seminar, papers were invited that scrutinize the nature of the political within the context of the study of security/insecurity. A wide range of topics were covered ranging across international relations, international political sociology, international law and political theory. Papers theorised the dynamics of contemporary politics and the role of researchers in it through such concepts as insecurity, exception and emergency, and risk, and examined the possibility of emancipatory projects. Besides theoretical and conceptual papers, the seminar contained numerous theoretically guided empirical analyses on productions of exceptions and insecurities in specific contexts related to among others migration, religion, risk management, the proliferation of WMDs, terrorism and the privatization of security.

A constructive debate on the nature of the collective and future initiatives took place during the round table on the forthcoming Collective Article (in Security Dialogue (2006)) and in the business meeting on the future of CASE.

The following decisions were taken. At the next MC meeting we will propose to hold a new Joint Seminar next year.  The website will be further developed – for which a proposal has already been agreed and some COST money is forthcoming. The idea of writing a new collective article will be pursued through the mailing list. Members will submit paper proposals to the CASE panels that Stephan Davidshofer, Jef Huysmans and Francesco Ragazzi are organizing for the Sixth Pan-European International Relations Conference in Turin 12-15 September 2007.

Welcome words from the organizers
Tarja Väyrynen (TAPRI)
Jef Huysmans (COST/c.a.s.e.)

16.30-17.15

Didier Bigo, "Globalized (in)Security: the Field and the BanOpticon"

17.30-19.00

Panel I: Security, Politics and Securitization
Chair: Juha Vuori

1.Tuomas Forsberg (University of Helsinki, Finland), "The Essential Contestability of The Concept of “Security” and its Implications for Security Studies"
Discussant: Jef Huysmans
2. Andrew Neal (Keele University), "Securitization Theory, Schmitt and Foucault"
Discussant: Didier Bigo
3. "Playing Politics in the Existential: ‘Politics’ in the Study of Securitization", Matti Jutila (University of Helsinki/TAPRI, Finland)
Discussant: Jef Huysmans

Key Note II
Heikki Patomäki, "Global Security: Learning From Possible Futures"

10.30-12.00

1. Rens van Munster (University of Southern, Denmark), "Reconfiguring Authority:Neo-Liberal Governmentality, Security and Immigration Control in the EU"

Discussant: Didier Bigo

2. Markus Mervola (University of Tampere, Finland), "The European Union and the Production of Illegal Immigration"
Discussant: Maria Stern

Discussant: Rens van Munster

12.45-13.45

Panel III: Proliferation, Crime and International Outlaws
Chair: Matti Jutila
1. Tytti Erästö (University of Tampere, Finland), "Outlaws of Humanity?"
Discussant: Rob Walker
2. Holger Strizel (John Hopkins University, USA), "The Moebius Ribbon of Insecurity: Myth or Reality?"
Discussant: Rob Walker

13.50-14.50
Panel IV: Conceptions of (In)Securiyty and Emancipation
Chair: Andrew Neal
1. Edmund Frettingham (University of Wales, Aberysweth, UK), "Religion and Emancipation in the Politics of Security", 
Discussant: J. Peter Burgess
2. Susanna Karlsson (University of Wales, Aberyswyth, UK), "On Constituting the ‘Subject of Security’: A View from ‘Environmental’ Politics in ‘International’ Relations"

17.00 - 18.00
Panel VI: Securitization in Illiberal Context
Chair: Holger Stritzel
1. Juha Vuori (University of Turku, Finland), "Illucutionary Logic and Strands of Securitization: Explicating the Concept of Securitization for Conceptual Travel"

9.30.10.15
Key Note III
Rob Walker, "Out of Line"

10.30-11.30
Panel VII: Risk and Government(ality)
Chair: Rens van Munster
1. Luis Lobo-Guerrero (Lancaster University, UK), "Micro-Practices of Security",
Discussant: Tarja Väyrynen
2. Christian Olsson (IEP de Paris, France), "Policing at the Frontierlands of the Political: Security Practice in Post-Intervention Environments and the Issue of Political Authority",
Discussant: Maria Stern

12.00-13.00
Panel VIII: Security and the European Union
Chair: Markus Mervola
1. Julien Jeandesboz (IEP de Paris/CERI, France), "The Politics of Neighbourhood"
Discussant: Rens van Munster
2. Chantal Lavallée (Université du Québec à Montréal), "Franco-British relationship in matter of European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP): actors, issues and processes"
Discussant: Tuomas Forsberg

13.00-14.00
Discussion and closing: the future of CASE and the c.a.s.e. collective
Chair: Jef Huysmans

Scientific coordinators:

Jef Huysmans (Open University, London)

Tarja Väyrynen (Tampere Peace Research Institute)

University of Helsinki & Tampere Peace Research Institute

Tel. +358 50 3515347

Telefax +358 3 2236620

Email: matti.jutila@uta.fi matti.jutila@uta.fi

University of Tampere

Tel. +358 40 7752810