Bruno Oliveira Martins
Biographic Data
| ID | 291145 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bruno Oliveira Martins |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bruno Oliveira |
| FAMILY NAME | Martins |
| SIGNATURE | MARTINS B O |
| AFFILIATIONS | Peace Research Institute Oslo |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0648-3627 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 116 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
From the Ground to the Stars: The Vertical Politics of the EU Drone Wall and Airspace Defence
This research note analyses the European Commission's Defence Readiness Roadmap 2030 as a manifestation of a new spatial and technological logic of European defence: the vertical territorialisation of security. Moving beyond traditional perimeter‐based understandings of territorial defence, the Roadmap constructs a multi‐layered continuum extending from drones and counter‐drones, through air and missile defence, to outer space. Drawing on Stuart …
Imagining people, targeting phones
This article engages with the mobile phone as a locus of military practice and resistance by examining the use of mobile phones as tactical targets in war. Our analysis adds to the International Relations (IR) and security studies literature that has investigated the mobile phone by mobilising Paul Virilio’s thinking around prosthetic technologies and obedient resistance. In this way, we offer an account of how the mobile phone enables political …
Outside the social making of interoperability: Problematizing the absence of civil society in border security R&D programmes
Big data-based governance requires both compatible modes of computing data and interoperable databases. While interoperability is often portrayed as a logical imperative, we understand it as socially co-produced within a political choice for algorithmic governance. We use the case of the European Union's border management regime to show how its reconfiguration towards increasing reliance on data governance carries political and societal consequen…
War economy vs European Silicon Valley? The EU's competing sociotechnical imaginaries of defence innovation and industry
The European Iron Network: The remaking of the political economy of European defence production following the Ukraine War
Reframing Civil–Military Relations in the EU: Insights From the Drone Strategy 2.0
In November 2022, the European Commission presented its Drone Strategy 2.0 with two main objectives: to build the European Union's (EU's) drone service market and to strengthen the Union's civil, security and defence industry capabilities and synergies. From the Commission's perspective, accelerating the integration of drones in Europe's airspace has the potential to enable progress on numerous policy objectives, such as the green transition, urb…
Disruptive Technologies for Security and Defence: Temporality, Performativity and Imagination
Emerging technologies are increasingly portrayed as having disruptive effects in security and defence, both in civilian and military environments. Yet, while revolutionary military technologies have always been connected to the notion of permanent techno-scientific innovation, there remains ample room for a critical enquiry on what it means to be disruptive in security and defence technology, the effects of claiming disruption and the broader soc…
Security knowledges: Circulation, control, and responsible research and innovation in EU border management
The knowledge emerging from research funded by the European Union (EU) through its Framework Programmes for Research and Innovation and other funding streams is significantly shaped by different forms of epistemic control exerted by the EU itself. Through the promotion of industry-research-policy cooperation in EU-funded research, and in light of the growing importance attached to ‘impact,’ this knowledge will often contribute to bureaucratic dec…
Digital Peacebuilding: A Framework for Critical–Reflexive Engagement
Existing research on digital technologies in peacebuilding exhibits both tech-solutionist and tech-problematizing traits that tend to understate their embeddedness in society and politics. We argue that the study of digital peacebuilding should instead reflexively engage with the coproduction of the technical and the social in both academia and practice. This requires asking how assumptions about technology are related to assumptions about the co…
EU Border technologies and the co-production of security 'problems' and 'solutions
This article contributes to an understanding of how expert technological knowledge impacts the security-migration management nexus at the EU borders. It argues that recent migration flows augmented pre-existing dynamics of growing reliance upon technology in EU border management. These dynamics are assessed through a study of the way emerging technologies, in particular Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV, commonly known as drones), and specific inform…
Drone Use for Covid‐19 Related Problems: Techno‐solutionism and its Societal Implications
Drones have been widely used by public authorities during the COVID‐19 pandemic for pandemic‐related problems. As an innovative tool with a wide range of potentialities, they have been deemed suitable for an exceptional situation marked by the persistence of social distance. Yet, the turn to new technology to solve complex problems is a political decision that has broad societal implications, especially in the context of declared states of emerge…
Sociotechnical Imaginaries of EU Defence: The Past and the Future in the European Defence Fund
In this article we investigate how a particular vision of the future of EU defence has embedded itself into different arenas of EU politics over decades, and is currently gaining material expression in the European Defence Fund (EDF). Through an historiographic approach, we traced the development of a particular narrative on security, innovation, research, and economic growth based on fears of technology gaps and dependence on the US, and a belie…
Global affairs and the politics of security technologies
Claiming parity between unequal partners: How African counterparts are framed in the externalisation of EU migration governance
The externalisation of European Union migration governance disproportionately impacts states based on the African continent. Much of the analytical focus amongst existing research has been on the agency of the EU and its Member-states, identifying the asymmetric and postcolonial character of these policies, as well as highlighting that the imposition of European interests on African states risks undermining their own political stability. Yet, the…
Rethinking EU external migration policy: Contestation and critique
The externalization of the EU’s migration policies has seen a sharp increase in recent years but many aspects of its historical roots, internal dynamics, and broader implications remain insufficiently explored. This special issue analyses recent developments in the EU’s external migration policies including the extra-territorial reach of EU migration policies; the power relationships between the EU and third countries involved in EU migration pol…
Horizon Scan: Critical security studies for the next 50 years
What is changing?This: the contradictions and predations of patriarchal imperialist capitalism, and of the deeply racist and gendered material and symbolic order it produces, have enabled an accelerating, unrelenting, unfettered extractive stance toward the planet, its ecosystems and natural resources, and the plant and animal species and human beings that inhabit it.That stance has not only resulted in increasingly outrageous inequalities and co…
Hidden Security: EU Public Research Funds and the Development of European Drones
In recent years, dozens of drone development projects have attracted hundreds of millions of euros from EU public research funds with little accountability and scarce political oversight. This article relates the ongoing exponential growth of the drone industry in Europe with the vast amounts of EU public research funding channelled to drone research. These projects typically configure partnerships that are neither strictly public, nor strictly p…
Introduction: Prospects for Palestinian‒Israeli Relations: What Lies Ahead
The idea for this Forum is based on an increasing concern with the status quo of the Israeli‒Palestinian conflict: failed peace negotiations, three assaults on the Gaza Strip between 2008 and 2014
The EU against the New Normal: Avoiding the Banalization of the Israeli‒Palestinian Dispute
This article assesses the European Union (EU)’s engagement with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and highlights the unintended consequences of the policies pursued by Brussels on this matter. While stressing that Palestinians and Israelis interested in peace face the danger of the banalization of the conflict, the article argues that the current status quo is unacceptable and unstainable in the long run, and this demands new policies from the act…
Interpreting EU–Israel relations: A contextual analysis of the EU’s Special Privileged Partnership proposal
This article analyses the background, content and implications of the EU proposal for ‘Special Privileged Partnership’ status to be granted to Israel and the future state of Palestine in the event of a successful conclusion to the peace process. It employs a sociological institutionalist perspective to assess the diplomatic manoeuvring in the broader context of EU–Israel relations. The analysis offers an identification and categorization of the c…
The political psychology of Israeli Prime Ministers: When hard-liners opt for peace
The political psychology of Israeli Prime Ministers: when hard-liners opt for peace." Global Affairs, 1(1), pp. 104–105
Why and how the EU should act on armed drones
This article systematizes the reasons that demand EU action on the issue of armed drones and advances a set of parameters that should frame the Union’s policy on the topic. It argues that a clear positioning of Brussels is required due to legal and strategic demands, and also for reasons of consistency with both previous practices in similar events and fundamental vectors of EU foreign and security policy. The current absence of a shared position…
The European Union and armed drones: Framing the debate
Armed drones – and their usage – are a topic extremely relevant for the EU. Several developments testify to this argument: the recent emergence of targeted killings as a common counter-terrorism technique; the existence of several EU member states using armed and surveillance drones in military scenarios; the presence of member states troops in areas where armed drones have been active; the US use of European-originated intelligence to execute ta…
A Sense of Urgency’: The EU, EU Member States and the Recognition of the Palestinian State
In the aftermath of the July-August 2014 war in Gaza, the Swedish government officially recognized the State of Palestine. This decision triggered a cascade of resolutions adopted in national parliaments of European Union member states and, eventually, led to the adoption of a European Parliament resolution supporting in principle the recognition of Palestinian statehood. Understood collectively, these efforts constitute a multifaceted European a…
The political-legal nexus in EU counter-terrorism: An assessment of the two-track influences between the EU and the UN
In the construction of the European Union’s (EU’s) counter-terrorism legal system, United Nations instruments and principles enter in the EU law sphere and pave the way for further developments both due to its legal force and to its role as agents of socialisation of security norms. At the same time, as this article demonstrates, the principles of EU constitutionalism, fundamental pillars in the EU’s legal system, have been the sources of judicia…
Sociotechnical Imaginaries of EU Defence: The Past and the Future in the European Defence Fund
In this article we investigate how a particular vision of the future of EU defence has embedded itself into different arenas of EU politics over decades, and is currently gaining material expression in the European Defence Fund (EDF). Through an historiographic approach, we traced the development of a particular narrative on security, innovation, research, and economic growth based on fears of technology gaps and dependence on the US, and a belie…
EU Border technologies and the co-production of security 'problems' and 'solutions
This article contributes to an understanding of how expert technological knowledge impacts the security-migration management nexus at the EU borders. It argues that recent migration flows augmented pre-existing dynamics of growing reliance upon technology in EU border management. These dynamics are assessed through a study of the way emerging technologies, in particular Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV, commonly known as drones), and specific inform…
Rethinking EU external migration policy: Contestation and critique
The externalization of the EU’s migration policies has seen a sharp increase in recent years but many aspects of its historical roots, internal dynamics, and broader implications remain insufficiently explored. This special issue analyses recent developments in the EU’s external migration policies including the extra-territorial reach of EU migration policies; the power relationships between the EU and third countries involved in EU migration pol…
Hidden Security: EU Public Research Funds and the Development of European Drones
In recent years, dozens of drone development projects have attracted hundreds of millions of euros from EU public research funds with little accountability and scarce political oversight. This article relates the ongoing exponential growth of the drone industry in Europe with the vast amounts of EU public research funding channelled to drone research. These projects typically configure partnerships that are neither strictly public, nor strictly p…
Disruptive Technologies for Security and Defence: Temporality, Performativity and Imagination
Emerging technologies are increasingly portrayed as having disruptive effects in security and defence, both in civilian and military environments. Yet, while revolutionary military technologies have always been connected to the notion of permanent techno-scientific innovation, there remains ample room for a critical enquiry on what it means to be disruptive in security and defence technology, the effects of claiming disruption and the broader soc…
Horizon Scan: Critical security studies for the next 50 years
What is changing?This: the contradictions and predations of patriarchal imperialist capitalism, and of the deeply racist and gendered material and symbolic order it produces, have enabled an accelerating, unrelenting, unfettered extractive stance toward the planet, its ecosystems and natural resources, and the plant and animal species and human beings that inhabit it.That stance has not only resulted in increasingly outrageous inequalities and co…
Digital Peacebuilding: A Framework for Critical–Reflexive Engagement
Existing research on digital technologies in peacebuilding exhibits both tech-solutionist and tech-problematizing traits that tend to understate their embeddedness in society and politics. We argue that the study of digital peacebuilding should instead reflexively engage with the coproduction of the technical and the social in both academia and practice. This requires asking how assumptions about technology are related to assumptions about the co…
Claiming parity between unequal partners: How African counterparts are framed in the externalisation of EU migration governance
The externalisation of European Union migration governance disproportionately impacts states based on the African continent. Much of the analytical focus amongst existing research has been on the agency of the EU and its Member-states, identifying the asymmetric and postcolonial character of these policies, as well as highlighting that the imposition of European interests on African states risks undermining their own political stability. Yet, the…
Security knowledges: Circulation, control, and responsible research and innovation in EU border management
The knowledge emerging from research funded by the European Union (EU) through its Framework Programmes for Research and Innovation and other funding streams is significantly shaped by different forms of epistemic control exerted by the EU itself. Through the promotion of industry-research-policy cooperation in EU-funded research, and in light of the growing importance attached to ‘impact,’ this knowledge will often contribute to bureaucratic dec…
Interpreting EU–Israel relations: A contextual analysis of the EU’s Special Privileged Partnership proposal
This article analyses the background, content and implications of the EU proposal for ‘Special Privileged Partnership’ status to be granted to Israel and the future state of Palestine in the event of a successful conclusion to the peace process. It employs a sociological institutionalist perspective to assess the diplomatic manoeuvring in the broader context of EU–Israel relations. The analysis offers an identification and categorization of the c…
Reframing Civil–Military Relations in the EU: Insights From the Drone Strategy 2.0
In November 2022, the European Commission presented its Drone Strategy 2.0 with two main objectives: to build the European Union's (EU's) drone service market and to strengthen the Union's civil, security and defence industry capabilities and synergies. From the Commission's perspective, accelerating the integration of drones in Europe's airspace has the potential to enable progress on numerous policy objectives, such as the green transition, urb…
The European Iron Network: The remaking of the political economy of European defence production following the Ukraine War
Why and how the EU should act on armed drones
This article systematizes the reasons that demand EU action on the issue of armed drones and advances a set of parameters that should frame the Union’s policy on the topic. It argues that a clear positioning of Brussels is required due to legal and strategic demands, and also for reasons of consistency with both previous practices in similar events and fundamental vectors of EU foreign and security policy. The current absence of a shared position…
The European Union and armed drones: Framing the debate
Armed drones – and their usage – are a topic extremely relevant for the EU. Several developments testify to this argument: the recent emergence of targeted killings as a common counter-terrorism technique; the existence of several EU member states using armed and surveillance drones in military scenarios; the presence of member states troops in areas where armed drones have been active; the US use of European-originated intelligence to execute ta…
A Sense of Urgency’: The EU, EU Member States and the Recognition of the Palestinian State
In the aftermath of the July-August 2014 war in Gaza, the Swedish government officially recognized the State of Palestine. This decision triggered a cascade of resolutions adopted in national parliaments of European Union member states and, eventually, led to the adoption of a European Parliament resolution supporting in principle the recognition of Palestinian statehood. Understood collectively, these efforts constitute a multifaceted European a…
EU External Relations and Systems of Governance: The CFSP, Euro–Mediterranean Partnership and Migration – By P.J. Cardwell
The EU, the Mirror and ‘the Others’
Uneasy Neighbors: Israel and the European Union - By S. Pardo and J. Peters
The EU's Shifting Borders: Theoretical Approaches and Policy Implications in the New Neighbourhood – Edited by E. Stadtmüller and K. Bachmann
The political psychology of Israeli Prime Ministers: When hard-liners opt for peace
The political psychology of Israeli Prime Ministers: when hard-liners opt for peace." Global Affairs, 1(1), pp. 104–105
Why and how the EU should act on armed drones
This article systematizes the reasons that demand EU action on the issue of armed drones and advances a set of parameters that should frame the Union’s policy on the topic. It argues that a clear positioning of Brussels is required due to legal and strategic demands, and also for reasons of consistency with both previous practices in similar events and fundamental vectors of EU foreign and security policy. The current absence of a shared position…
The European Union and armed drones: Framing the debate
Armed drones – and their usage – are a topic extremely relevant for the EU. Several developments testify to this argument: the recent emergence of targeted killings as a common counter-terrorism technique; the existence of several EU member states using armed and surveillance drones in military scenarios; the presence of member states troops in areas where armed drones have been active; the US use of European-originated intelligence to execute ta…
A Sense of Urgency’: The EU, EU Member States and the Recognition of the Palestinian State
In the aftermath of the July-August 2014 war in Gaza, the Swedish government officially recognized the State of Palestine. This decision triggered a cascade of resolutions adopted in national parliaments of European Union member states and, eventually, led to the adoption of a European Parliament resolution supporting in principle the recognition of Palestinian statehood. Understood collectively, these efforts constitute a multifaceted European a…
The political-legal nexus in EU counter-terrorism: An assessment of the two-track influences between the EU and the UN
In the construction of the European Union’s (EU’s) counter-terrorism legal system, United Nations instruments and principles enter in the EU law sphere and pave the way for further developments both due to its legal force and to its role as agents of socialisation of security norms. At the same time, as this article demonstrates, the principles of EU constitutionalism, fundamental pillars in the EU’s legal system, have been the sources of judicia…
Introduction: Prospects for Palestinian‒Israeli Relations: What Lies Ahead
The idea for this Forum is based on an increasing concern with the status quo of the Israeli‒Palestinian conflict: failed peace negotiations, three assaults on the Gaza Strip between 2008 and 2014
The EU against the New Normal: Avoiding the Banalization of the Israeli‒Palestinian Dispute
This article assesses the European Union (EU)’s engagement with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and highlights the unintended consequences of the policies pursued by Brussels on this matter. While stressing that Palestinians and Israelis interested in peace face the danger of the banalization of the conflict, the article argues that the current status quo is unacceptable and unstainable in the long run, and this demands new policies from the act…
Interpreting EU–Israel relations: A contextual analysis of the EU’s Special Privileged Partnership proposal
This article analyses the background, content and implications of the EU proposal for ‘Special Privileged Partnership’ status to be granted to Israel and the future state of Palestine in the event of a successful conclusion to the peace process. It employs a sociological institutionalist perspective to assess the diplomatic manoeuvring in the broader context of EU–Israel relations. The analysis offers an identification and categorization of the c…
Global affairs and the politics of security technologies
Claiming parity between unequal partners: How African counterparts are framed in the externalisation of EU migration governance
The externalisation of European Union migration governance disproportionately impacts states based on the African continent. Much of the analytical focus amongst existing research has been on the agency of the EU and its Member-states, identifying the asymmetric and postcolonial character of these policies, as well as highlighting that the imposition of European interests on African states risks undermining their own political stability. Yet, the…
Rethinking EU external migration policy: Contestation and critique
The externalization of the EU’s migration policies has seen a sharp increase in recent years but many aspects of its historical roots, internal dynamics, and broader implications remain insufficiently explored. This special issue analyses recent developments in the EU’s external migration policies including the extra-territorial reach of EU migration policies; the power relationships between the EU and third countries involved in EU migration pol…
Horizon Scan: Critical security studies for the next 50 years
What is changing?This: the contradictions and predations of patriarchal imperialist capitalism, and of the deeply racist and gendered material and symbolic order it produces, have enabled an accelerating, unrelenting, unfettered extractive stance toward the planet, its ecosystems and natural resources, and the plant and animal species and human beings that inhabit it.That stance has not only resulted in increasingly outrageous inequalities and co…
Hidden Security: EU Public Research Funds and the Development of European Drones
In recent years, dozens of drone development projects have attracted hundreds of millions of euros from EU public research funds with little accountability and scarce political oversight. This article relates the ongoing exponential growth of the drone industry in Europe with the vast amounts of EU public research funding channelled to drone research. These projects typically configure partnerships that are neither strictly public, nor strictly p…
Drone Use for Covid‐19 Related Problems: Techno‐solutionism and its Societal Implications
Drones have been widely used by public authorities during the COVID‐19 pandemic for pandemic‐related problems. As an innovative tool with a wide range of potentialities, they have been deemed suitable for an exceptional situation marked by the persistence of social distance. Yet, the turn to new technology to solve complex problems is a political decision that has broad societal implications, especially in the context of declared states of emerge…
Sociotechnical Imaginaries of EU Defence: The Past and the Future in the European Defence Fund
In this article we investigate how a particular vision of the future of EU defence has embedded itself into different arenas of EU politics over decades, and is currently gaining material expression in the European Defence Fund (EDF). Through an historiographic approach, we traced the development of a particular narrative on security, innovation, research, and economic growth based on fears of technology gaps and dependence on the US, and a belie…
Digital Peacebuilding: A Framework for Critical–Reflexive Engagement
Existing research on digital technologies in peacebuilding exhibits both tech-solutionist and tech-problematizing traits that tend to understate their embeddedness in society and politics. We argue that the study of digital peacebuilding should instead reflexively engage with the coproduction of the technical and the social in both academia and practice. This requires asking how assumptions about technology are related to assumptions about the co…
EU Border technologies and the co-production of security 'problems' and 'solutions
This article contributes to an understanding of how expert technological knowledge impacts the security-migration management nexus at the EU borders. It argues that recent migration flows augmented pre-existing dynamics of growing reliance upon technology in EU border management. These dynamics are assessed through a study of the way emerging technologies, in particular Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV, commonly known as drones), and specific inform…
Security knowledges: Circulation, control, and responsible research and innovation in EU border management
The knowledge emerging from research funded by the European Union (EU) through its Framework Programmes for Research and Innovation and other funding streams is significantly shaped by different forms of epistemic control exerted by the EU itself. Through the promotion of industry-research-policy cooperation in EU-funded research, and in light of the growing importance attached to ‘impact,’ this knowledge will often contribute to bureaucratic dec…
Reframing Civil–Military Relations in the EU: Insights From the Drone Strategy 2.0
In November 2022, the European Commission presented its Drone Strategy 2.0 with two main objectives: to build the European Union's (EU's) drone service market and to strengthen the Union's civil, security and defence industry capabilities and synergies. From the Commission's perspective, accelerating the integration of drones in Europe's airspace has the potential to enable progress on numerous policy objectives, such as the green transition, urb…
Disruptive Technologies for Security and Defence: Temporality, Performativity and Imagination
Emerging technologies are increasingly portrayed as having disruptive effects in security and defence, both in civilian and military environments. Yet, while revolutionary military technologies have always been connected to the notion of permanent techno-scientific innovation, there remains ample room for a critical enquiry on what it means to be disruptive in security and defence technology, the effects of claiming disruption and the broader soc…
Outside the social making of interoperability: Problematizing the absence of civil society in border security R&D programmes
Big data-based governance requires both compatible modes of computing data and interoperable databases. While interoperability is often portrayed as a logical imperative, we understand it as socially co-produced within a political choice for algorithmic governance. We use the case of the European Union's border management regime to show how its reconfiguration towards increasing reliance on data governance carries political and societal consequen…
Political science (26 works) · Law (21 works) · Law (20 works) · Politics (19 works) · Sociology (16 works) · International trade (14 works) · Economics (12 works) · Political economy (12 works) · European union (11 works) · European Union Policy and Governance (10 works)