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Es werden die Herausforderungen der EG und EFTA für eine engere Kooperation mit den osteuropäischen Staaten und mögliche Formen der Zusammenarbeit erörtert

The author presents a case for expanding the military dimension of a cooperative and preventive approach to security challenges in Southeast Europe - a troubled region attracting significant international attention at the turn of the millennium. The military, a fundamental building block and one of the most recognizable characteristics of a modern state, is adapting to the changes in the international security environment and reexamining its functional responsibilities. Cooperative security and preventive defense concepts promote military cooperation and look to prevent dangerous situations from arising and ultimately prevent wars of aggression and violent conflict. Leading countries, international institutions and various initiatives look to foster stability and security in Southeast Europe. The military dimension of these efforts has significant potentials for promoting and contributing to peace and preventing conflicts. International military cooperation can be systematically categorized and analyzed by examining the form, nature and aspects of the cooperative activities. Forms of military cooperation include military-to-military contacts, exchange of information, education and training opportunities, joint exercises and training, seminars, peace support operations and multinational forces. Euro-Atlantic integration is perhaps the ultimate means of cooperation and conflict prevention. Croatia has a robust bilateral military cooperation program and is expected to raise its multilateral efforts to a new level. (SOI : PM: S. 50)

Terrorism has become a global phenomenon over recent decades. The attacks on the United States in 2001 prompted a 'global war on terror', the implementation of which has led to a significant aggrandizement of executive power in the US at the expense of the legislature, ostensibly the 'most powerful' representative assembly in the world. In this volume, seasoned scholars focus on the effects of terrorism and antiterrorism on executive-legislative relations in a range of countries whose citizens have experienced terrorism, including those from Australia, Indonesia, Israel, Italy, Russia, and the UK. Has the pattern of accretion of executive power in the United States been replicated in all these systems? Or have other institutional and other factors, including the structure of the party system and the specific coalitional nature of the governments, served to mitigate changes in the balance of legislative and executive power in these systems? The volume, which is based on original research, reaches some surprising conclusions, which disabuse expectations based on the US experience.

"Depuis l'été 2017, les pays du Golfe sont confrontés à une crise sans précédent : en rompant du jour au lendemain leurs relations diplomatiques avec le Qatar, accusé de soutenir l'Iran et de financer les organisations terroristes, l'Arabie saoudite, le Bahreïn, les Émirats arabes unis et l'Égypte ont fait voler en éclat l'apparente unité au sein du Conseil de coopération du Golfe. Cette crise, tout d'abord régionale, est rapidement devenue mondiale, car elle implique désormais de nombreux acteurs extérieurs et cristallise de multiples lignes de fractures annonciatrices d'une possible nouvelle guerre froide. En interrogeant les origines profondes de la crise, ses enjeux pour les pays du Golfe dans un contexte de nécessaire reconversion économique, de guerre au Yémen et de rivalité croissante entre Arabie saoudite et Iran, cet ouvrage souligne l'importance fondamentale d'une stabilité de la zone, non seulement pour le Moyen-Orient, mais aussi pour l'Europe et tout l'Occident." (Verlagsbeschreibung)