Title: Shaping South East Europe's security community for the twenty-first century : trust, partnership, integration /
Authors: Cross, Sharyl.
Year: 2013
Subjects: National security Balkan Peninsula; Computer security Balkan Peninsula.; Security systems Balkan Peninsula.; Security, International Balkan Peninsula.; Defence strategy, planning & research Southeast Europe.; Diplomatic relations.; International relations Southeast Europe.; International relations Southeast Europe.; Military & defence strategy Southeast Europe.; POLITICAL SCIENCE Globalization.; Security, International; Terrorism, armed struggle Southeast Europe.; Terrorism, armed struggle Southeast Europe.; Warfare and Defence.; Warfare and Defence.
Abstract: This book brings together leading academic specialists and policy practitioners to explore and develop cooperative approaches for managing critical contemporary and emerging security challenges for South East Europe and the wider international community. Including a range of contributors from South East European countries, the United States, and other interested regional parties, this book focuses upon trust, partnership, and a striving for more effective regional integration. In antithesis to traditional approaches to national security driven by the illusions of power and national egotism, this collection adopts what has become the dominant approach to security management in South East Europe today - an attempt to conceptualize and realize security in all of its aspects as a cooperative endeavour for the collective good. This book explores transnational challenges that will dominate the international security agenda in the years to come, in South East Europe and beyond. Issues considered include management of weapons of mass destruction, cyber security, transnational organized crime and corruption, violent extremism and terrorism, energy security, maritime security, economic development, and demographic change.
Contents: 1. Shaping the twenty-first century International Security Community in South East Europe and beyond: an introduction / Sharyl Cross and Radovan Vukadinović -- 2. European missile defense: prospects for cooperation / John C. Reppert, Selmo Cikotić, and Kevin Ryan -- 3. Global challenges for managing cybersecurity in the twenty-first century: enhancing capacity for South East Europe / Kenneth Geers and Savo Kentera -- 4. The challenges of corruption and organized crime / Konstantin Samofalov, Petar Turčinović and R. Craig Nation -- 5. Security threats of violent Islamist extremism and terrorism for South East Europe and beyond / Dragan Simeunović and Adam Dolnik -- 6. Energy security in South East Europe / Lidija Čehulić, Alexey V. Kuznetsov, Mitat Celikpala, and Gregory Gleason -- 7. Maritime security challenges in South East Europe / David Belt, Ioannis Chapsos, and Dragan Samardžić -- 8. Security through economic development and strengthening institutional capacity: from the era of transition to an era of opportunity in South East Europe / Valbona Zeneli and Marios P. Efthymiopoulos -- 9. Transnational migration and demographic security challenges / Anna Krasteva, Alberto Cervone, and Frances T. Pilch -- Conclusion / R. Craig Nation.