Security Versus Freedom?

Thierry Balzacq is Research Fellow in the Justice and Home Affairs Unit at the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) and Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Namur, both in Belgium. He is also Expert to the European Parliament and teaches security studies at Sciences Po Paris. He has published several articles and his main areas of interest are: the pragmatic (re)-conceptualisation of security; international relations theories; technology and the politics of violence. Sergio Carrera is a Research Fellow at CEPS. He is an external expert on 'freedom, security and justice' for the European Economic and Social Committee and on 'immigration and integration' for the European Parliament (DG IPOL). He is PhD candidate in the Faculty of Law of the University of Maastricht (The Netherlands). He is also involved with various trans-European and international projects, including CHALLENGE (Changing Landscape of European Liberty and Security), a Framework Research Programme of DG Research (European Commission). He has had several works published on integration, inclusion, migration and citizenship.