The upgrading of the European Commission and the European Parliament’s role in the EU policy-process from 1999 might have been expected to herald a shift away from the previous securityand control-orientation of asylum policy. No such shift occurred. This paper traces the continuity in EU asylum policy’s trajectory to the continuity in its ‘policy-image’: actors seeking to fashion institutional...

This is one of the most stimulating books on Renaissance medicine I have read, and, at the same time, one of the most perverse. It offers a series of challenging theses. The rise of anatomy in the sixteenth century is to be viewed, not as part of medicine or science, but of natural philosophy, a branch of theology concerned with investigating and demonstrating the works of God in nature. The cl...

Concepts Concrete Concepts Example Motivation Conclusion and Perspectives Andreas Metzger – SAM 2002 – Aberystwyth, Wales – June, 2002 1 Motivation 1 Application of Prototyping Final System Idea Validation (Product Test) Validation (Prototype Test) Verification (e.g. Inspection) Verification (Prototype Test) Prototype Creation Requirements Specification Problem Description System Prototype Prob...