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151. A Roadmap for Ukraine's Integration into Transatlantic Structures

Author:
Oksana Kozlovska
Publication Date:
06-2006
Content Type:
Working Paper
Institution:
NATO Defense College
Abstract:
Ukraine's return to Europe, or in other words the process of its becoming a member of key international organizations – namely the EU and NATO – appeared to be complicated, lasting and far from any romantic notions. Besides the need for consensus from society as a whole and from the Ukrainian leadership, appropriate governmental and parliamentary decisions were also required; these factors demonstrating the necessity of serious, internal changes in all spheres of state activity. In practical terms, the basis for these requirements remains to be established: a mutual understanding of key questions of state life, national and international security, internal and foreign policy priorities.
Topic:
International Relations, NATO, and International Cooperation
Political Geography:
Europe and Ukraine

152. NATO-EU Cooperation in Post-Conflict Reconstruction

Author:
Chris Morffew, Alec Aalto, Christopher Alexander, Mihai Carp, Bernard Carreau, Jean Dufourcq, Karen Guttieri, Zalmai Haquani, Birgitte Juul, Eikka Kosonen, Natalino Ronziti, David Yost, and Richard Zink
Publication Date:
05-2006
Content Type:
Working Paper
Institution:
NATO Defense College
Abstract:
On 3-4 November 2005 the NATO Defense College hosted a seminar, co-sponsored by the Ministry of Defense of Finland, regarding NATO and European Union post-conflict reconstruction operations. The participants included officials from NATO and the EU, as well as experts and officials from NATO, EU, and Partnership for Peace nations. The seminar objectives included:-promoting more effective EU-NATO teamwork in such operations,-evaluating the main problems and achievements to date, and-assessing lessons from operations in Afghanistan in particular.
Topic:
Conflict Resolution, NATO, and International Cooperation
Political Geography:
Afghanistan and Finland

153. Le Maghreb stratégique

Author:
Fouad Ammor, Mohamed Ould Haless, Ferdaous Ben Sassi, Mehid Taje, and Laurence Ammour
Publication Date:
04-2006
Content Type:
Working Paper
Institution:
NATO Defense College
Abstract:
La première partie de nos travaux consacrés au Maghreb Stratégique, pour lesquels nous avions donné la parole en juin 2005 à deux Algériens, un Tunisien et un Français, avait mis en éviden ce les trois points suivants: la valeur stratégique du Maghreb n'est pas la somme de chacun des pays qui le composent, chaque Etat ayant ses prop res atouts, ses intérêts et ses contraintes; la sécurité de l'ensem ble maghrébin reste tributaire de transformations internes politiques, économ iques et sociales tout autant nécessaires que difficiles à mettre en œuv re; les cadres de coopération régionale et internationale tardent à tro uver une forme efficace.
Topic:
Security and International Cooperation
Political Geography:
Middle East and Arabia

154. Integrative Processes in the South Caucasus and their Security Implications

Author:
Leila Alieva
Publication Date:
03-2006
Content Type:
Working Paper
Institution:
NATO Defense College
Abstract:
The issue of threats and risks, and policy responses to them, acquired a profound importance after 2001. The post-Soviet developments in the South Caucasus is an interesting case study, reflecting problems and contradictions in the relations between the West and the East, developed democracies and states in transition, Christians and Muslims. It also contributes to the current debates about: asymmetric threats and ways of addressing them, relations between democracy and security, which effect integration processes may have had on the security challenges of the century.
Topic:
Security, NATO, and Democratization
Political Geography:
Middle East and Soviet Union

155. Promoting Sustainable Security

Author:
Jean Dufourcq(ed.) and Laure Borgomano-Loup (ed)
Publication Date:
02-2006
Content Type:
Working Paper
Institution:
NATO Defense College
Abstract:
War has vanished; it seems to have disappeared from the mental landscape of the Western world. War, that is, as it was understood in the 19th and 20th centuries, as conflict between nation-states and organized societies for the defence or conquest of territory and wealth, the establishment of empires or the imposition of ideologies by force. When the Second World War ended, the Western victors attempted to outlaw war by means of collective regulators and the restrictive provisions of the San Francisco Charter concerning individual and collective legitimate defence. And then these very peoples, armed to the teeth for the cold war, developed the art of strategy and sophisticated weapons of destruction to such a point that, unwittingly, it seems, they domesticated war. The huge-scale disasters that the destructive power of the atom was now able to inflict made war unthinkable. Thus the cold war ended in a strategic stalemate, without a shot being fired. War quietly fell into discredit, as Western states, conditioned by centuries of national wars, border fighting and national defensive postures against neighbouring countries, slowly began to shift the focus to collective security to protect common interests, and policies on disarmament and prevention of proliferation in whatever form it took. In doing so, they exposed themselves to a potential new hazard: the danger that war might return, via other routes, to the heart of the Western world.
Topic:
International Relations, Security, Development, and Peace Studies

156. The Role of the Wider Black Sea Area in a Future European Security Space, Volume 1

Author:
Jean Dufourcq(ed.) and Lionel Ponsard(ed.)
Publication Date:
12-2005
Content Type:
Working Paper
Institution:
NATO Defense College
Abstract:
The Black Sea is at the forefront of the strategic agenda for 2 005, though its ordinary geographical name tends to conceal the dynamic geopolitical realities of an area where a transformation is in full swing.
Topic:
International Relations, Security, and Development
Political Geography:
Europe

157. The Role of the Wider Black Sea Area in a Future European Security Space, Volume 2

Author:
Jean Dufourcq(ed.) and Lionel Ponsard(ed.)
Publication Date:
12-2005
Content Type:
Working Paper
Institution:
NATO Defense College
Abstract:
This second booklet of reflections on Black Sea security issues is the companion volume to the one published during the continuation of the seminar sponsored by the NSC at Constanta (Romana) on 6 and 7 June 2005 on the subject of “The Role of the Wider Black Sea Area in a Future European Security Space”.
Topic:
International Relations, Security, and Development
Political Geography:
Europe

158. Security Strategies and their Implications for NATO's Strategic Concept

Author:
Jean Dufourcq(ed.) and Carlo Masala(ed.)
Publication Date:
11-2005
Content Type:
Working Paper
Institution:
NATO Defense College
Abstract:
This volume contains the three presentations delivered on the occasion of the 52nd Anciens' Annual Conference and Seminar held on 23 September 2005 at the NATO Defense College in Rome. The seminar was dedicated to the subject of “Security Strategies”–especially those of the United States, the European Union, and of course the 1999 NATO Strategic Concept. One major issue examined at the seminar was the impact that the evolution of the first two strategies may have on the Alliance's current strategic concept.
Topic:
Security, NATO, and Development
Political Geography:
United States, Europe, and Rome

159. When Suicide Bombing Reaches the Tipping Point

Author:
Sam Grier
Publication Date:
10-2005
Content Type:
Working Paper
Institution:
NATO Defense College
Abstract:
While at the macroscopic level numerous analyses have been devoted to finding the root causes of terrorism in the interest of preventing and countering terrorism as comprehensively as possible, a whole range of complementary preventive measures could be taken at a more microscopic level. It is therefore important to identify the catalysts of the forces fuelling terrorism, so as to compose a holistic menu of small and coordinated preventive actions as part of a first line of defence.
Topic:
Security, NATO, Peace Studies, and Terrorism