Resumo

As a new security area, cyber security is often framed in pre-existent security structures and institutions that might not always be the most appropriate form of dealing with threats from cyberspace (such as the common distinction between internal and external security). On the other hand, cyber security also demands a re-adjustment of our understanding of security, and in this case, of European security. Both dynamics will be discussed in this session in order to understand the strategic rationale and the political-ethical limits (with all the associated issues of privacy, surveillance and over-reliance on private actors) of cyber security policies in Europe. How does it affect the EU as a security actor and how does it impact on the larger framework of the EU as an international actor? 

Oradores:
Annegret Bendiek, German Institute for International and Security Affairs
Giampiero Giacomello, Universidade de Bolonha
Thomas Renard, Royal Institute for International Relations, Bruxelas

Moderadores:
André Barrinha, Canterbury Christ Church University e Centro de Estudos Sociais
Helena Carrapiço, Aston University e Centro de Estudos Sociais

Notas Biográficas

Annegret Bendiek is currently part of the Policy Planning Staff of the German Federal Foreign Office. She is also the deputy head of the External Relations Research Division at the Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP) in Berlin. Between August 2013 and April 2014 she was a Fellow at the German Marshall Fund and the Transatlantic Academy. From 2003 until 2005 she was Assistant Professor (C1) in Political Science at the University of Bielefeld. Since 2012 she is member of the “Europe/Transatlantic” consultant group at the Heinrich-Boell-Stiftung (Boell Foundation), Berlin. She is an expert on European Security, with a particular focus on cyber security.

Giampiero Giacomello is assistant professor of international relations in the Department of Politics, Institutions and History at Bologna University. He graduated with a degree in Political Science from the University of Padua and earned an M.A. in International Affairs in 1989 at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies with a thesis on "The Defensive Defense: An Alternative for NATO?". In 2001 he received his Ph.D. in Political and Social Sciences at the European University Institute, with a thesis entitled, "A Digital Challenge? National Governments and the Control of the Internet." In 2004 he was a postdoctoral associate with the Peace Studies Program at Cornell University, funded by the program’s grant from the MacArthur Foundation. His research interests include strategic studies, foreign policy analysis and European studies. His articles on these topics have appeared in International Political Science Review, European Security, and several other refereed journals. He is the co-editor (with Johan Eriksson) of International Relations and Security in the Digital Age (Routledge, 2006) and author of National Governments and Control of the Internet (Routledge, 2005).

Thomas Renard is a Senior Research Fellow in the programme Europe in the World since 2009. His research focuses on the multipolarisation of international affairs (in all dimensions, from economy to military) and the strategies developed by the European Union to cope with emerging powers, notably the so-called strategic partnerships. He leads the European Strategic Partnerships Observatory (ESPO), a joint project of FRIDE and Egmont. He has written extensively on the EU’s strategic partnerships. His main contributions include the edited volume The European Union and Emerging Powers in the 21st Century: How Europe Can Shape a New Global Order (Asghate, 2012, with Sven Biscop), or The Treachery of Strategies: A Call for True EU Strategic Partnerships (Egmont Paper 45, 2011). His publications have been translated in Chinese and Russian, notably, and he is often quoted in the international media. Mr Renard is a regular guest lecturer in various Universities (e.g. Ghent University, Catholic University of Louvain (UCL) and College of Europe, Bruges).

Nota: A língua de trabalho do evento será o inglês

Este evento é uma co-organização do Centro de Estudos Sociais da Universidade de Coimbra e da Fundação Friedrich Ebert em Lisboa