During the 6 decades of its existence the NATO has been expanding in several dimensions: in the scope of its activities, in the number of member states, in the geographic reach of its activities, in the width of its partnership relations with non-members, in the intensity of cooperation with other international organizations. The concept of enlargement has however been used in the literature more narrowly to describe (a) the long-term process of expanding the membership and (b) individual steps or rounds in this direction.
COBISS.SI-ID: 28438365
Findings of this joint international project are imporant contribution to the theory and practice of the fields. On the basis of findings, resulting from the analysis of the ethnic conflict in Macedonia in 2001 and its management, authors provide with the possibility of wider generalisation and approaching the problematics of the conflict-management holistically. The findings y are especially important for the planning of national security policy of Macedonia and security policy of the European union.
COBISS.SI-ID: 77257226
The article is based on the presumption that contemporary security crises are increasingly and explicitly marked by growth in quantity and important changes in quality as displayed in the endemicity of crises, their composition, duration and complexity. The changing dimensions of modern crises have a direct influence on crisis management. Its conventional organization and co-ordination forms are no longer adequate, a rethinking of politics and the capacity of crisis response is needed that takes both the national and international levels of the problem into account.
COBISS.SI-ID: 29242205
During the Cold War (CW), the influence of public opinion (PO) on security policy of countries and internat. organizations in Europe was limited. After the CW, the role of PO in that particular field increased; consequently some key questions on rationality (responsiveness), consistency and reliability of PO were raised in scient. literature. The authors reply on the basis of PO results obtained in surveys after 1990. The data reveal that PO about security issues was relatively stable after 1990 whereas greater changes were most often related to the changed circumstances and new information.
COBISS.SI-ID: 29146973
Relevancy of national critical infrastructure has risen recently, since the past terrorist activities deliberately focused on such infrastructure. The goal of this article is to diagnose the security relevance of critical infrastructure in general and identify the most critical infrastructural sectors in Slovenia. These sectors are structured mostly as complex and dispersed networks. The article also identifies some key threats and risks that contribute to the level of their criticality as shown by the calculated index.
COBISS.SI-ID: 28619869