The pre-crisis Iceland would have never accepted to join the EU. Belonging to EFTA, EU single market (by the means of EEA) and Schengen Area had sufficed the Icelandic nation poised to keep their 60 year sovereignity. But the financial crisis melted not only the Icelandic risky banking industry,...

The post Cold War Era has been characterised by the globalisation of terrorism and organised crime with major negative effects on business environment worldwide.The Islamic fundamentalism has targeted not only political and military assets but also businessmen-citizens of the “Evil”,...

The book tackles the theme of intercultural dialogue, ethnicity and confession through the lens of minority-majority relations, and also the mechanism for managing inter-ethnic and inter-confessional relations at the Eastern border of the EU. The selection of the conference works was done taking...

Two decades after the definition of its Common Foreign and Security Policy, the European Union could move forward in this field by planning and implementing the full integration of Intelligence into the core of its global and smart power design. An inception scenario could consider and...

TRANSATLANTIC SECURITY, DEFENCE AND STRATEGY: BADLY NEEDED REFORMS Professor Peter M.E. VOLTEN (emeritus) Professor Emeritus Peter Volten has been awarded Doctor Honoris Causa of the National University of Political Studies and Public Administration (May 2014) in recognition of his outstanding...

In principle, the EU is a military alliance, but with neutral states in it. In fact, the EU is an organisation with security opt-outs, very much reliant on US military umbrella. Also in principle, Russia still is a provider of (energy) security to the EU. In fact, by Putinisation, is being the...