Mediterranean Frontiers: Borders, Memory and Conflict in a Transnational Era

Mediterranean Frontiers: Borders, Memory and Conflict in a Transnational Era, edited with Dimitar Bechev, I.B. Tauris, 200

European Stories: Intellectual Debates on Europe in National Contexts

European Stories: Intellectual Debates on Europe in National Contexts, edited with Justine Lacroix, OUP, 201

Tensions in Transitional Justice

“Tensions in Transitional Justice”, w/ Phil Clark, Zachary D. Kaufman, in After Genocide: Transitional Justice, Post-Conflict Reconstruction and Reconciliation in Rwanda and Beyond [p.-p.] (Phil Clark and Zachary D. Kaufman, eds.) (New York, NY: Columbia University Press and London, UK: C. Hurst and Co., 2008

EU 2.0: Towards Sustainable integration

“EU 2.0: Towards Sustainable integration”, 12 July 2010, OpenDemocracy

Under the Long Shadow of Europe - Greeks and Turks in the era of Postnationalism

Under the Long Shadow of Europe - Greeks and Turks in the era of Postnationalism, edited with Kerem Öktem and Othon Anastasakis, The Hague: Brill, 200

Mediterranean Frontiers: Borders, Memory and Conflict in a Transnational Era

Mediterranean Frontiers: Borders, Memory and Conflict in a Transnational Era, edited with Dimitar Bechev, I.B. Tauris, 200

The Trade-Migration Linkage: GATS Mode IV

“Mode IV ” is a technical term but one which evokes big issues: the freedom of global movement of people to match the free movement of capital across borders. In other words, an issue especially dear to countries in the “South ” whose citizens often, too often, see their salvation in going to work in the “North. ” More specifically, these people come to be referred to as “service providers ” which therefore makes them part of the multilateral trade agenda. In the strike of a pen, they are freed from the legal ghetto of migration ministries and the ILO and brought under the spotlight of the global economic arena! Formally, Mode IV is part of the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) of the WTO, which attempts to ensure non-discrimination against service providers on the basis of their country of origin. Mode IV is unique in that it relates to the movement of individual service providers across borders and so implies a binding obligation on states to admit non-nationals on to their territory. Mode IV is so far very limited in scope, applying only to a narrow group of people – temporary, skilled, contractual service providers engaged in intra-firm movement- and will be limited to the specific vis