Alternative Conventional Defense Postures In The European Theater
Alternative Conventional Defense Postures In The European Theater

Author: Hans G. Brauch

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2018-10-24

Total Pages: 342

ISBN-13: 1317840976

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First published in 1993. This volume, edited jointly by the American strategic expert Robert Kennedy and the German peace researcher Hans Giinter Brauch, takes up conceptual ideas developed by Horst Afheldt and Carl Friedrich von Weizsacker, as well as others on both sides of the Atlantic, since the 1960s. Our aim has been to contribute to the development of concepts that would reduce the danger of a third world war by the creation of more stable structures in the context of a defensively oriented conventional defense posture. In this volume a variety of alternative approaches to European conventional defense, driven for the most part by similar strategic considerations, are presented by German and American experts to a larger international audience.

Alternative Conventional Defense Postures in the European Theater: The impact of political change on strategy, technology, and arms control
Alternative Conventional Defense Postures in the European Theater: The impact of political change on strategy, technology, and arms control

Author: Hans Günter Brauch

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 314

ISBN-13: 9780844816005

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This volume examines NATO strategy and force posture alternatives in the light of changes that have taken place and which are taking place in Europe today. The authors offer their views on the nature of political change, changing military doctrines and changes in technology. NATO's future role in the new Europe which is beginning to emerge in the post-Cold War period is analyzed.

Environmental Security of the European Cross-Border Energy Supply Infrastructure
Environmental Security of the European Cross-Border Energy Supply Infrastructure

Author: M.G. Culshaw

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2015-01-05

Total Pages: 255

ISBN-13: 940179538X

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The current volume provides examples of how environmental hazards such as landslides, earthquakes, mountain processes, cold climate processes and tidal flows and currents can affect the energy supply infrastructure. In times of uncertainty, the security of the European cross-border energy supply infrastructure, such as pipelines, has great importance. Whilst the potential effects of political disagreement, economic inequalities and social differences are relatively well understood, the impact of environmental change is often poorly appreciated by decision-makers. New approaches have been examined for monitoring of hazardous landslide processes, including early warning systems, and near-real-time 3D data processing and visualization. The scientific problems of environmental systems design have been discussed and approaches for their implementation have been suggested. New integrated remote sensing techniques consisting mainly of hyperspectral and radar imagery are presented together with the processing of monitoring data using GIS techniques and, in particular, dynamic visualization. Attention is also given to conceptual issues of environmental and energy security and the role of education, to help resolve environmental problems through cooperation in the development of the European energy supply infrastructure.

Building Sustainable Futures
Building Sustainable Futures

Author: Luc Reychler

Publisher: Universidad de Deusto

Published: 2009-01-01

Total Pages: 388

ISBN-13: 8498304733

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The overall theme of the 2008 IPRA Global Conference focuses on the interaction between economic development, environmental change, conflict prevention and peacebuilding efforts in the 21st century. The challenge is to re-search new futures. This collaborative book project ultimately reflects the constant evolution of Peace Studies as it is reflected in its expanding areas of research and the institutional structures which provide the vertebrae so that the former can develop with greater depth, continuity and sustainability. This is the reason why HumanitarianNet has teamed up with IPRA to produce this collection of articles.

Shaping Europe's Military Order
Shaping Europe's Military Order

Author: Richard A. Falkenrath

Publisher: MIT Press

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 9780262560863

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The legal foundation of the contemporary European security order is the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE). Negotiated by NATO and the Warsaw Pact states as the Cold War was ending and implemented as the new Europe took shape, the CFE Treaty imposes strict limits on the armed forces of all the major European states. This book takes a detailed look at the origins and evolution of the CFE negotiations and the impact of the CFE Treaty on European Security. It draws extensively on interviews with participants in the CFE negotiations and offers a careful reconstruction of a process that contributed to the transformation of Cold War Europe, a critical assessment of the treaty's contribution to security in post-Cold War Europe, and an evaluation of the lessons of CFE for future conventional arms control initiatives. CSIA Studies in International Security, No. 6

Defensive Restructuring of the Armed Forces in Southern Africa
Defensive Restructuring of the Armed Forces in Southern Africa

Author: Bjørn Møller

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-01-15

Total Pages: 190

ISBN-13: 0429873735

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Published in 1997, the work explores the reorientation of security policies and the accompanying restructuring of the armed forces going on in Southern Africa under entirely new circumstances: Democracy has come to South Africa, the civil wars in Angola and Mozambique have ended, and the region is establishing a regional framework for cooperation. While covering the entire region, a special focus is placed on South Africa which is predestined to play a leading role, but which is struggling with the legacy of the apartheid regime and its repeated aggressions against neighbouring states. A defensive restructuring of the South African of the South African military is an element in the building of mutual trust. The implications of such defensive restructuring to a non-offensive defence are described in detail. In addition to the analytical contribution, the work also contains central documents and a bibliography.