The European Commission's new role in EU security and defence cooperation: the case of the European Defence Fund

C Håkansson - European Security, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
European Defence is in a new and formative phase in which the European Union's long list
of defence acronyms has steadily grown. One of the most noticeable new policy initiatives is …

EU Border technologies and the co-production of security 'problems' and 'solutions'

BO Martins, MG Jumbert - The Spiralling of the Securitisation of …, 2023 - taylorfrancis.com
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 …

Sociotechnical imaginaries of EU defence: The past and the future in the European Defence Fund

BO Martins, J Mawdsley - JCMS: Journal of common market …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

Study of image sensors for enhanced face recognition at a distance in the Smart City context

JM Llauradó, FA Pujol, D Tomás, A Visvizi, M Pujol - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Smart monitoring and surveillance systems have become one of the fundamental areas in
the context of security applications in Smart Cities. In particular, video surveillance for …

Disruptive technologies for security and defence: Temporality, performativity and imagination

R Csernatoni, BO Martins - Geopolitics, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Emerging technologies are increasingly portrayed as having disruptive effects in security
and defence, both in civilian and military environments. Yet, while revolutionary military …

Security knowledges: circulation, control, and responsible research and innovation in EU border management

BO Martins - Science as Culture, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
The knowledge emerging from research funded by the European Union (EU) through its
Framework Programmes for Research and Innovation and other funding streams is …

Reframing civil–military relations in the EU: insights from the Drone Strategy 2.0

C Lavallée, BO Martins - JCMS: Journal of Common Market …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract 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 …

Conceptualizing the European military-civilian-industrial complex: the need for a helicopter perspective

L Newlove-Eriksson, J Eriksson - Defence Studies, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
In his 1961 farewell address, US President Eisenhower coined the term “military-industrial
complex,” referring to the coalescing of military, industrial, and political interest groups. In …

The security-innovation nexus in (Geo-) political imagination

C Haddad, D Vorlíček, N Klimburg-Witjes - Geopolitics, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Security and innovation have become increasingly entangled at the level of political
rationalities, imagination, and material practice, forming what we conceptualise as the …

Security-defence nexus in flux:(De) securitisation of technology in the Netherlands

MA Sezal - Defence Studies, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
The contemporary defence sector is dominated by dual-use technologies which have both
military and civilian applications. The trade of these technologies is governed by export …