Security Threats and Responses in Central Europe
Security Threats and Responses in Central Europe

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Published: 2007

Total Pages: 10

ISBN-13:

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On April 2-3, 2007 the CSIS New European Democracies Project and the CSIS Defense Industrial Initiatives Group (DIIG) hosted a two-day conference entitled Security Threats and Responses: Regional Perspectives, as the first part of the series "Central and East Europe's Security Agenda." The conference focused on pan-European and Transatlantic security priorities, such as the U.S. proposal for missile defense sites in Poland and the Czech Republic; defense industrial base integration and modernization; internal and external challenges to NATO transformation; collaborative EU and NATO strategies toward frozen conflicts in Eastern Europe; and European energy security. The event featured key security experts, political analysts, and officials from the U.S. and Central-East European (CEE) region.

Soft Security Threats & Europe
Soft Security Threats & Europe

Author: Graeme P. Herd

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-02-04

Total Pages: 186

ISBN-13: 1317983866

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A new in-depth assessment of ‘soft security’ threats in Europe and Eurasia. These threats are now posed by many kinds of trafficking and are being responded to with a range of methods. Experts from around the world are brought together to provide a detailed analysis of the various aspects of trafficking, covering illegal migrants, the black market weapons trade, sex trafficking and drugs. They consider the nature of this threat facing society and the effectiveness of national and international attempts to eradicate it. An assessment of EU responses to ‘soft security’ and a case study of US Homeland Security deliver the latest developments in this key area. Is the concept of ‘soft security’ useful to analysts and policy-makers? Will they be able to manage these sources of insecurity successfully in the future? This work provides likely trends and projections to resolve these pressing questions. This book is a Special Issue of the leading journal European Security.

Making the Difference?
Making the Difference?

Author: European Commission. External Relations Directorate-General. Directorate Crisis Platform and Policy Coordination in CFSP.

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Published: 2010

Total Pages: 502

ISBN-13: 9789279141744

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"In recent years the European Union has taken a range of steps to enhance the way it deals with international crises and natural disasters. In addition to a substantial increase of EU funding, there is closer cooperation between the European Commission, other EU institutions, EU Member States, NGOs and the think tank community in Europe and beyond. New ways of 'making the difference' in terms of crisis response and capacity building have been developed. This new book represents some of the debates conducted during the conference 'Making the difference: Strengthening capacities to respond to crises and security threats' organised by the European Commission on 3 and 4 June 2009 in Brussels. This event is organised every two years and aims at highlighting successful techniques, methods and approaches to conflict transformation, crisis response and peace building. As such, this book is a follow-up to the two previous volumes: 'From early warning to early action? The debate on the enhancement of the EU's Crisis Response capability continues" and 'Faster and more united? The debate about Europe's crisis response capacity'. The new volume brings together photojournalism from the field with background provided by contributions from academia. It includes articles by and interviews with policy experts and crisis response practitioners, making this one of the few witness account-based references on EU crisis response available."--Editor.

The Morality of Security
The Morality of Security

Author: Rita Floyd

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2019-04-18

Total Pages: 261

ISBN-13: 1108493890

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Offers an innovate approach to ethics and security, combining securitization theory and the just war tradition.

Security Perception and Security Policy in Central Europe, 1989-2019
Security Perception and Security Policy in Central Europe, 1989-2019

Author: Tamás Csiki Varga

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2023-09-19

Total Pages: 135

ISBN-13: 1000959546

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Central Europe may be perceived as a homogeneous subunit: a geographic locale that shares similar cultural traits, common histories, and a linked troubled past, and one that has embarked on a joint process of European integration in the past three decades. A closer look reveals that there are significant differences hidden in the cracks and the states of Central Europe exhibit large variety in two key elements that makes regional cooperation uniquely challenging: their strategic cultures and their relations toward Russia. Two major factors determine a state’s foreign policy and international ambition – its perception of the security environment and the capabilities it possesses. Policy experts provide an overview of how these two factors, and by extension state-level foreign policies, have varied in the post-Cold War era, up until 2019. The contributing authors in this volume take a deep dive into nine Central and Eastern European states’ policies: Austria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Serbia and Ukraine. The assessments provided in this book attempt to deconstruct the monolithic regional-level approach through the methodical study of the states of the region. This approach will be particularly useful for scholars and interested individuals who want to understand why and how individual Central European states participate in NATO and EU security and defence initiatives and policies. This book was originally published as a special issue of Defense & Security Analysis.

Global Trends 2040
Global Trends 2040

Author: National Intelligence Council

Publisher: Cosimo Reports

Published: 2021-03

Total Pages: 158

ISBN-13: 9781646794973

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"The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic marks the most significant, singular global disruption since World War II, with health, economic, political, and security implications that will ripple for years to come." -Global Trends 2040 (2021) Global Trends 2040-A More Contested World (2021), released by the US National Intelligence Council, is the latest report in its series of reports starting in 1997 about megatrends and the world's future. This report, strongly influenced by the COVID-19 pandemic, paints a bleak picture of the future and describes a contested, fragmented and turbulent world. It specifically discusses the four main trends that will shape tomorrow's world: - Demographics-by 2040, 1.4 billion people will be added mostly in Africa and South Asia. - Economics-increased government debt and concentrated economic power will escalate problems for the poor and middleclass. - Climate-a hotter world will increase water, food, and health insecurity. - Technology-the emergence of new technologies could both solve and cause problems for human life. Students of trends, policymakers, entrepreneurs, academics, journalists and anyone eager for a glimpse into the next decades, will find this report, with colored graphs, essential reading.

The European Union
The European Union

Author: Antonina Bakardjieva Engelbrekt,

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2018-04-27

Total Pages: 259

ISBN-13: 1788111052

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This book addresses the challenges presented to the EU by an increasingly complex security environment. Through the interdisciplinary approach taken, researchers in economics, law and political science identify a range of problems relating to the multiple security threats that the EU faces, and present new means to address them within their respective fields of expertise. The contributions provide accessible and policy-relevant analyses of crucial challenges to the EU’s ability to function as a political union in the years ahead.