The main security problem that any state faces today is protecting its citizens in countering organised crime and terrorism. Wars between states are less frequent than in previous eras. Border defence and border security are distinct missions requiring different forces with different training...

By enlarging the EU to Central and Eastern European Countries (CEEC), the Baltic as well as Malta and Cyprus, Europe will attain greater unity. The will to enlarge the Union to cover all the European continent exists amongst all its members. This enlargement will follow preliminary and necessary...

The quest for European Security is a protracted interaction of international diplomacy, war anddomestic politics where this article shows how Kosovo is an interplay of all these components.Kosovo is a case where NATO believes that it is strengthening its position of collective security...

Dissuasion is increasingly being used by American diplomats, politicians and the military to describe the action that should apparently be taken against those identified as posing a threat to American interests prior to such potential adversaries having the actual capability to pose a danger

Few would challenge that terrorism, warlordism and organized crime—also known as the Deadly Trinity—could exhibit many similar characteristics but would they in any way be associated or even linked in a global proliferation network of weapons of mass destruction (WMD)? The case of the London...

This article will explain terrorism within the context of hegemony—the rise of Western hegemony and decline of Islamic hegemony and hence the terrorist attacks of 9/11. The need for an alternate thesis has arisen given that politicians, generals and intellectuals have grappled dismally in...

Propaganda and intelligence became interrelated on the operational level in the IraqWar after General Casey called for the creation of an Information Operations TaskForce (IOTF) in 2005. The intelligence function of the IOTF was to undertakemeasures of effects of the propaganda efforts which...

The first decade of the new millennium saw the European Union deploy ninesecurity missions to the African continent, quoting the European Security andDefence Policy. Unlike the numerous United Nations security missions thatEuropean states had previously contributed to, these were part of a grand...