Session I: Rethinking Security, Borders, and Technology after 9/11: New Theories and Conceptual Frameworks
- Rethinking security: new conceptual approaches
From "border security" towards "territorial risk management."
Mathias Albert, Bielefeld University -
Beyond Borders: Local Authority in Contemporary US Immigration Enforcement
Mat Coleman, Ohio State -
The De-differentiation of Internal and External Security and Its Effects
Didier Bigo, Sciences Po
Session II: The Changing Role of the Military in Border and Homeland Security
- Implications for Interagency Activity
Jerry Walsh, United States Army War College - New Requirements for a New Challenge: The Military's Role in Border Security
Bert Tussing, United States Army War College Center for Strategic Leadership
Session III: Homeland and Border Security: Comparative Perspectives
- Border Security in Europe
Thomas Diez, University of Birmingham - Contemporary Border Securitization in, and Emanating from, the Middle East
David Newman, Ben Gurion University - US-Mexico Security Relations
Mnica Serrano, El Colegio de Mexico & University of Oxford
Session IV: Legal and Normative Dimensions of Homeland and Border Security
- Violence, Public Safety, and Human Security at the Border: Locating Ethics in the Human
Rights of Everyday Experience
Kathleen Staudt, University of Texas at El Paso - Surveillance and Ethics: A Sociological Understanding
Vida Bajc, University of Pennsylvania - International Law, Human Rights and Border Control
David Jacobson, Arizona State University
Key Note Speakers
- No Borders, No Nations? Why Borders are Defended
John Agnew, University of California- Los Angeles - Should We Spend Less on Iraq and More on Homeland Security?
Michael O'Hanlon - Susan Ginsberg, Senior Policy Analyst, Migration Policy Institute