Sigurnosna politika Bosne i Hercegovine

Author(s): Mirza Smajić / Language(s): Bosnian Publication Year: 0

Započeti procesi demokratske tranzicije Bosne i Hercegovine od postkonfliktne do savremene državne zajednice zahtijevaju značajne unutrašnje i vanjskopolitičke preokrete. S tim u vezi tekst analizira sigurnosnu politiku Bosne i Hercegovine u postdejtonskom periodu, praveći kratku povijesnu retrospektivu njegovog razvoja od 1995. godine. Poseban fokus usmjeren je na kompleksnost organizacije i funkcioniranja komponenti unutrašnjeg i vanjskog sistema sigurnosti. osim toga analizirani su savremeni sigurnosni izazovi s kojima se Bosna i Hercegovina eventualno može susresti ili se već susreće. Također je posebna pažnja posvećena reformi sistema sigurnosti na putu u evroatlantske organizacije te analizi sposobnosti Bosne i Hercegovine za borbu protiv terorizma, te drugih aktuelnih sigurnosnih izazova.

Security challenges in Central Asia: implications for the EU’s engagement strategy

Author(s): Daniel Kimmage / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

Central Asia presents the European Union with a uniquely problematic set of security challenges. Enumerated in their most basic form, without reference to context, the challenges are formidable enough: the threat of violent extremism, a well established conduit for smuggling illegal narcotics and potential instability rife with the possibility of conflict and humanitarian catastrophe. But these challenges are not stand-alone issues that can be treated individually; they are embedded in a regional context that creates additional difficulties for engagement.

Transatlantic Defence-Industrial Cooperation and American Policy: An American View

Author(s): Gordon Adams / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

Defence industrial cooperation across the Atlantic has fallen on bad days in recent years. The number of official transatlantic defence programmes has dwindled to a handful, of which the frequently-threatened MEADS air defence system isthe most notable. Increasingly, for major defence acquisition programmes, such as air transport and missiles, European governments are showing a ninclination to ‘buy European’, while the US tradition of ‘buy American’ remains as hardy as ever.

European security strategy: Is it for real?

Author(s): Yuri E. Fedorov,Roberto Menotti,Dana H. Allin,François Heisbourg / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

The written presentations of our panellists – Roberto Menotti (Research Fellow, Aspen Institute Italia), Dana Allin (Senior Fellow, IISS,London) and Yuri Fedorov (Deputy Director of the Institute for Applied International Studies, Moscow) – were completed by a number of remarks, having been urged by the Chairman to dwell on the following issues:• the nature of the EU’s strategic interests and notably the importance of distant contingencies – such as Korea and Kashmir – as compared with Europe’s ‘near abroad’;• the impact of the difference in strategic cultures between the EU and the US (as well as within the EU itself); and• the long-term evolution of EU-US strategic relations.

Separatyzm – środek rozwiązywania czy zawiązywania się konfliktu na tle etniczno-narodowym?

Author(s): Agnieszka Wojciechowska / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

Internal conflicts in different parts of the world often are the result of separatism. The phenomenon of conflict is increasingly noticeable in the world. Media reports about the ongoing conflict in Ukraine, the case of Kurdish and the Scottish independence referendum. Analyzing comprehensively this situation, you will notice that in almost every country any social group defends own interests by improving their own local autonomy, as well as attempts to separation. The article analyzes the motives and perspectives of separatism.

Hard power i soft power w polityce bezpieczeństwa Izraela

Author(s): Sara Piwowarska / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

The rise of the state of Israel was landmark for the Middle East but also for the entire international community. Since its inception, the State of Israel experienced successes, but also a failure, it was forced to face wars, internal and external problems. This article says, which factors influenced the formation of the Israel’s security system. Through the analysis of political background up to now with special taking the matter of security into consideration the attempt of answering the question was taken: what is the role of hard power and soft power in the policy of the State of Israel?

Doktryna geopolityczna Węgier

Author(s): Roman Andrzej Stańczyk / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

The main goal of this article is the presentation of Hungarian geopolitical doctrine. Hungary for almost 45 years belonged to the Eastern Block. When Soviet Union collapsed in 1991 Hungary could change foreign Policy. Budapest quickly established relations with the European Communities. Hungarians wanted in this way to refer to the historical traditions of the presence of his country among developed countries. It was extremely important to overcome the historical legacy in relations with their neighbors. The big challenge was the issue of the Hungarian minority living in scattered abroad. It was necessary to sign agreements with neighboring countries, which required a lot of effort on the part of the Hungarian diplomacy. A new concept of geopolitical doctrine by the first democratic government of Prime Minister Jozsef Antall was a revolutionary change. Today Prime Minister of Hungary – Victor Orban refer to him ideas.

Niegroźna prowokacja czy realne zagrożenie? Konsekwencje wydarzeń wokół meczu piłkarskiego Serbia – Albania z 14 października 2014 r.

Author(s): Bartosz Lewandowski / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

Sport is currently a space and a tool used in the context of political rivalry by individual entities in international relations. One recent example of this relationship is interrupted at 14 October 2014 football match between Serbia and Albania. The research purpose of this article is to evaluate possible correlations, resulting from the unrests caused by events during the match. These effects should be considered a the levels of: political and social relationships and issue of security. The final result is a task to confirm or deny the hypothesis which hold that the unrest caused by the game can act as a dangerous, not only destabilizing the relations between Serbia and Albania, but also affect of the security in the Balkan region.

Konflikt naddniestrzański jako przykład separatyzmu na obszarze byłego ZSRR

Author(s): Dawid Pudło / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

Separatism in the former USSR is today one of the most serious problems in this area at the end of the Cold War and still poses a threat to global security as well. In this work there will be presented determinants of separatism in Transnistria with emphasis on the problem posed by a quasi-state. The intention of this work is to present the events of the conflict in Transnistria and what is happening today in the area, even though it is a frozen and fueled conflict by Moscow. The creation of a de facto two new political entities, raises the question of whether it is a population of separatism or territories who want to unplug have the right to self-determination. On the other hand, separatism in the former USSR shows a reconstruction of the existing policy of the Moscow government neo-imperialism.

Konflikt indyjsko-pakistański o Kaszmir i jego implikacje dla bezpieczeństwa w Azji

Author(s): Łukasz Robak / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

The Indo-Pakistani conflict creates a big dander for building peace and safety in Asia. The mutual reluctance between these countries, which mainly results from historical factors, is additionally depend by controversial border territory – Kashmir and makes bilateral relationships tensed. On the territory of Kashmir there are same paramilitary groups which make the relationships even worse. This constant tense situation on this area causes the world a lot of worry. The need for extreme caution is connected with the fact that both countries possess nuclear weapon which might be used in wars which break out every, several years. India and Pakistan are situated next to each other so the reaction of the attacked country is just impossible. So, the conflict which seems to be frozen now, may lead to the escalation of large – scale warfare which threatens the world’s security.

Wojna gruzińsko-rosyjska jako przykład tendencji imperialistycznych Federacji Rosyjskiej wobec obszaru postradzieckiego

Author(s): Agnieszka Miarka / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

This article aims to present the various aspects of the Russian-Georgian war. In the first part was presented the historical background necessary to identify the internal situation of Georgia and separatism in the area. Then, the determinants of war were taken into consideration. The author’s intention was to present the widest possible context factors that contributed to the commencement of hostilities. The section also presents the course of the war. The article concludes with an attempt to determine the implications of the war.

Turkey’s War in Syria: Prevention or Expansion

Author(s): Arzu Yılmaz / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

The international community have mostly perceived Turkish military interventions in north of Syria as the “legitimate right [of Turkey] to protect its borders”, since the Syrian crisis that later deteriorated into a proxy war has revealed a dramatic decline in Middle Eastern states’ capacities to politically and militarily control their territorial peripheries.

The impact of Turkey’s 2019 invasion on North and East Syria

Author(s): Thomas McClure,Nina Steinhardt / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

Throughout the Turkish invasion of North and East Syria, the Rojava Information Center (RIC) collected information from a network of sources across the region as well as RIC field teams, documenting the impact of the invasion on civilian populations and infrastructure. The RIC has found that the Turkish Armed Forces and its proxy militias are responsible for widespread attacks on non-combatants, systematic looting and destruction of private property and public infrastructure, and mass displacement of civilians. The RIC documented a clear trend of Turkish forces targeting health workers, vehicles and infrastructure, as well as destruction of water and electricity facilities, bakeries, roads, grain storage facilities, and so on. A number of high-profile human rights violations, such as the field execution of female Syrian politician Hevrin Khalef and the strike on a civilian convoy which left thirteen civilians dead, take place against a background of a systematic attempt to make life unliveable for civilians in the zones Turkey aims to occupy. The forcible displacement of the civilian population in general and the Kurdish, Yazidi, and Christian populations in particular, to facilitate the installation of Turkmen and Arab militiamen and their families,ought to be seen as a process of demographic engineering for which the Turkish government is ultimately responsible.

The UN and the Turkish Invasion in Syria

Author(s): Christoph Osztovics / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

On 9 October 2019, Turkey’s military launched operation ‘Peace Spring’in an area between Tall Abyad and Ra’s al-Ayn in the Syrian Arab Republic.Over 200,000 civilians fled their homes amid the initial hostilities, reportedly123,000 had returned by November (UN Security Council 2019).1 Syrian Islamist militias aided the Turkish military forces. The so-called ‘anti-terror campaign’ declared a goal of creating a 30 kilometre-deep ‘safe zone’ on the Syrian side of the border. The Turkish government has long wanted to establish such a zone to prevent the creation of a Kurdish political entity.

Bibliografie

Author(s): Adrian Lesenciuc / Language(s): Romanian Publication Year: 0

Behind the Statistics: A Feminist Take on Militarisation

Author(s): Jasmina Čaušević / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

Although many feminists, including anti-militarist feminists, argue that gender mainstreaming has blunted the blade of feminism and opened the door to donor policies and non-governmental organisations, which simplified feminist fight and weakened transnational nature of the feminist movement, we must wonder what equality situation would be like and where women would be today had it not been for the ideas that promote gender mainstreaming. We understand this term the way it was explained by Jadranka Rebeka Anić citing the Glossary titled: 100 Words for Equality – in essence, it is about gender-conscious policy making, in other words: The systematic integration of the respective situations, priorities and needs of women and men in all policies and with a view to promoting equality between women and men and mobilising all general policies and measures specifically for the purpose of achieving equality by actively and openly taking into account, at the planning stage, their effects on the respective situations of women and men in implementation, monitoring and evaluation (Anić, 2011, p. 26)

Iza statistike: feministička kritika militarizacije

Author(s): Jasmina Čaušević / Language(s): Bosnian Publication Year: 0

Iako brojne feministkinje, među kojima i antimilitarističke, tvrde da je gender mainstreaming otupio feminističku oštricu, birokratizirao feministički način djelovanja i omogućio donatorskim politikama i nevladinim organizacijama da pojednostave feminističku borbu i oslabe transnacionalnost feminističkog pokreta, moramo se zapitati kakvo bi bilo stanje ravnopravnosti kao i gdje bi žene bile danas bez ideja koje promoviše gender mainstreaming. Ovaj termin razumijemo onako kako ga je objasnila Jadranka Rebeka Anić citirajući pojmovnik 100 Words for Equality – dakle, u pitanju je rodno osviještena politika.

Slovak Security and Defense Policy in 2019

Author(s): Dušan Fischer / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

When 2019 started, there were several defense and security issues to be resolved. The EU was preparing for its parliamentary election and Brexit day was still in the pipeline. It had been almost three years since the referendum, so desperation on both sides had turned into a tiresome wait for the United Kingdom to finally leave the EU. There were a couple of related questions, such as what kind of relationship would the EU and UK agree in relation to Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP). In addition, with the United Kingdom leaving the EU, the member states felt the urge to address third party participation in Permanent Structure Cooperation (PESCO). In NATO the leadership and members were starting to get along with the U.S. administration and were able to distinguish words from actions. After reassurance from some U.S. government representatives, although not its head, NATO continued going forward, expanding rapid deployment, securing the Eastern and Southern Flanks by military and non-military means and keeping the door open for possible accessions. The Eastern Flank of Europe, particularly the ongoing frozen conflict in Ukraine led Slovakia to follow NATO’s policy of improving readiness through military exercises and by building security capacities, such as the NATO Force Integration Unit.

Slovakia’s Participation in Foreign Military Operations and Observer Missions in 2019

Author(s): Author Not Specified / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

Syrian Crisis and Migration

Author(s): Pinar Yazgan,Deniz Eroğlu Utku,Ibrahim Sirkeci / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

In this issue, we aimed to shed some light on the Syrian refugee crisis which seems to shake European common policy on migration and asylum. However, it seems focus is still on raising walls, strengthening borders, and futile categorisations of movers as ‘refugees’ and ‘economic migrants’. As well put in a recent interview,“ managing international migration is not a matter of controlling borders; it is a question of transnational peace” (Bardakci, 2015). People will continue fleeing the environments where they feel insecure and Europe will continue to face large influxes from neighbouring countries in trouble.