INEX

About INEX Programme:

Security and insecurity are social, cultural, political concepts. Nowhere is this more evident than in the challenges produced by the evolving continuum between internal and external security challenges. The interdisciplinary project INEX is designed around two research axes: thematic and geopolitical.

On the thematic axis it will study four fields of knowledge of high relevance to the question of the ethics and the value-laden tensions arising along the continuum between internal and external security in Europe:
- The ethical consequences of the proliferation of security technologies,
- The legal dilemmas that arise from transnational security arrangements,
- The ethical and value questions that stem from the shifting role of security professionals and
- The consequences of the changing role of foreign security policy in an era when the distinction between the external and internal borders grows less distinct.

On the geopolitical axis it will study and produce recommendations relative to two geographical theatres of high relevance for ethical issues of internal/external security: the Eastern European ?neighbourhood? including Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova and the Mediterranean ?neighbourhood? including Morocco, Algeria and Egypt.

The project will link directly with representatives of the security technology industry as well as security provision services that implement concretely to the border security arrangements. The state-of-the-art research carried out by the project will result in a variety of different outputs aimed primarily at relevant policy- makers, researchers and educators. It will present analyses of current security challenges with particular attention to the human side of the security challenge, and on this basis propose remedial to the new challenges of the internal/external security continuum.

About the Project:

The INEX programme is divided in several work packages, covering the different thematic orientation of the project. Centre for Security Studies is responsible for the Work-package 5 of INEX project focused on The Eastern European neighbourhood. The primary objective of this work package is to document and analyze the direct consequences in value and ethical terms of the evolution of the internal/external security continuum for three members of the Eastern European Neighbourhood Policy: Belarus, Ukraine and Moldova. This primary objective comprises several sub-objectives:

A comprehensive overview of EU policies in the three countries of the Eastern ENP relative to their values premises and ethical consequences.
An empirically based analysis of security practices differentiated across the security continuum and between countries of the ENP.
A comprehensive study Frontex and its activities from a transversal value perspective. Assess the continuity of values across the continuum.
An empirical comparative assessment of the premises of border security between the EU and individual countries (Belarus, Ukraine and Moldova).
An analysis of security strategies toward the ENP countries in terms of non-military security threats.
A documentation of cultural variations in application of external security (immigration control, visa control, screening, identification, surveillance.
An evaluation of social and cultural values as a basis for good governance activities in Eastern segment of the European Neighbourhood Programme.

The project’s official website: www.inexproject.eu