Daniel Schade

Buying into Myths: Free Movement of People and Immigration

The way in which free movement of people has become the central issue of the British governments renegotiation and referendum campaign on the UKs relationship with the European Union (EU) risks obfuscating at least three central issues: why immigrants are coming to the UK; what impact EU migrants are having on the UK; and what can be done to effectively regulate such inflows. It is, however, not just the eurosceptics and the British government, but also ‘in campaigners’ and other EU member states, who risk perpetuating a number of widely held misconceptions about free movement and immigration for political reasons. Buying into such myths risks undermining attempts to have a more honest and more evidence-based debate about immigration and migrant integration.

Limiting or liberating? The influence of parliaments on military deployments in multinational settings:

Multilateral contexts often complicate parliaments’ efforts to scrutinise and influence security policy, as parliaments usually work in a national setting. This article explores how the internationalisation of security policy has altered parliamentary constraints on executive decision-making. It focuses on cases where multilateral decision-making is particularly advanced and studies military deployments under the auspices of the European Union’s (EU’s) Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP). Using the examples of France, the United Kingdom and Germany, the article examines how the policy’s location at the intersection of decision-making on security and EU matters creates new opportunities for member state parliaments to scrutinise it. Yet, as an analysis of three CSDP military operations shows, these opportunities do not always translate into increased scrutiny practice and vary in line with factors such as national troop contributions, distinct political traditions and an operation’s salience.

Quo vadis IR: method, methodology and innovation

This introduction to the special conference issue for the 2014 Millennium Conference on Method, Methodology and Innovation aims to provide a background to the conference theme, as well as the articles included in this issue. It hence serves to outline the reasoning for holding a conference on method and methodology in International Relations (IR), situates the present debate within a broader context, elaborates on why Millennium is a journal that is well suited to host such a debate, and offers an overview of the different contributions made in this issue.

The European Union and military force: governance and strategy

Notes on contributor Camil Roman (MA, University of Warwick) is a PhD candidate in politics and international studies at theUniversity of Cambridge. His research interests include the French Revolution and its impact on Prussia, the political anthropology of revolutionary changes, and the interpenetration of politics with the sacred. His most recent publication is ‘Liminality, the execution of Louis XVI and the rise of terror during the French Revolution’ in Bjørn Thomassen, Agnes Horvath and Harald Wydra (eds) Breaking boundaries: varieties of liminality (forthcoming).