COST Action A24 “The Evolving Social Construction of Threats” was actively running from November, 2003 till January 2008.

Main objectives

1. Improve our understanding of the social construction of threats
2. Develop tools for constructivist analysis of insecurities
3. Relate knowledge and tools to non-academic users
4. Develop networks between younger and senior scholars
   
   Main lines of inquiry

1. The social construction of terrorism
2. The privatization of insecurity
3. Critical approaches to security in Europe
4. Security, technologies of risk and the political
5. Human mobility and the constitution of insecurities
6. Proliferation of weapons of mass destruction
7. The resurgence of geopolitical thought in Europe after 1989
   
   Main achievements

1. Innovative knowledge development in politically and academically highly topical lines of inquiry
2. C.a.s.e. Collective: durable network of younger and senior scholars
3. Several communication with non-academic users at seminars

Main publications

•  C.a.s.e. collective (2006), ‘Critical approaches to security in Europe. A network manifesto.’ Security Dialogue, Vol. 37, no. 4, pp. 443-487 [Authored by 25 members of the CASE network]
• C.a.s.e. Collective (2007).  Europe, Knowledge, Politics—Engaging with the Limits: The c.a.s.e Collective Responds. Security Dialogue Vol. 38, No. 4, pp. 559-576. [Authored by 16 members of the CASE network]
• Stephan Davidshofer and Francesco Ragazzi (Guest Editors), ‘Special Issue on Critical Approaches to Security in Europe: Practices of Security and The Political’ in Journal of International Relations and Development 10:4, 2007
• Claudia Aradau, Luis Lobo-Guerrero, and Rens Van Munster (Guest Editors), ‘Special Issue on Security, Technologies of Risk, and the Political’ in Security Dialogue 39:2-3, 2008
•  Jef Huysmans and Anastassia Tsoukala (Guest Editors), ‘Special Issue on The Social Construction and Control of Danger in Counter-Terrorism’ in Alternatives. (Forthcoming 2008)
• Stefano Guzzini (editor), Ontological anxiety and the resurgence of geopolitical thought in Europe after 1989 (Forthcoming 2009)
• Kerstin Bauer and Gregor Dobler (eds.), Trust in states, trust without states: How privatization of security affects social trust. (Forthcoming)
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