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France is one of the EU member states with a most highly-developed national strategic culture. Victory in the Second World War, its role as a member of the United Nations Security Council, the development of a nuclear programme that gave the country the status of a nuclear power, united to the historical development of a sense of a global mission on the world stage, contributed to the development of a global vision for France's role on the world arena. The exercise of setting out a global description of a long-term vision and strategy for defence policies in white books (Livre Blanc) had been conducted twice before, in 1972 and 1994. The latest 2008 White Paper on Defence and National Security preserves some of the basic patterns of its forerunners but introduced the concept of a national security strategy, that had not been developed before.

While widely considered a core pillar of the peace and security architecture, Security Sector Reform (SSR) is coming under fire. SSR theory and practice are criticized for being overly focused on traditional conflict and post-conflict settings and for being unable to adjust to unconventional settings marked by chronic crime and terrorism. SSR tends to be disproportionately focused on national institutions and less amenable to engaging at the subnational scale. Drawing on the experiences of so-called 'citizen security' measures in cities across Latin America and the Caribbean, this paper offers some opportunities for renewing and revitalizing SSR. The emphasis of citizen security interventions on multiple forms of insecurity, data-driven and evidence-informed prevention, the promotion of social cohesion and efficacy and designing crime prevention into the social and built environment are all insights that can positively reinforce comprehensive SSR measures in the 21st century.

Nowadays interpersonal safety in social interactions is becoming increasingly significant. Words and phrases such as hatred, hate speech, discrimination, contempt, verbal aggression, and bias-motivated crimes have been constantly present in our daily life and public discussions, which led to the new forms of social pathology. These phenomena pose a considerable danger to the social continuity, especially to the constantly evolving democracy in Poland. The main aim of the article is to attract the reader's attention to the danger triggered by verbal aggression, which has a detrimental impact on people's safety and their interactions in different spheres of social life. ; Bezpieczeństwo interpersonalne w relacjach społecznych nabiera w dzisiejszych czasach szczególnego znaczenia. Nienawiść, mowa nienawiści, dyskryminacja, pogarda, agresja werbalna czy przestępstwa z nienawiści to słowa, które nieustannie pojawiają się w naszym życiu i dyskursie publicznym, przybierając postać nowej patologii społecznej. Są to zjawiska, które w chwili obecnej stanowią bardzo poważne zagrożenia dla trwałości społeczeństwa obywatelskiego, a przede wszystkim dla ciągle kształtującej się demokracji w naszym kraju. Głównym celem artykułu jest zwrócenie uwagi czytelnika na zagrożenia, jakie niesie za sobą agresja werbalna dla poczucia bezpieczeństwa człowieka i jego relacji interpersonalnych występujących w różnych dziedzinach życia społecznego.

Will peace in Vietnam and neutralised Indochina bring stability to Southeast Asia? Or will most of the area fall under a China-North Vietnam condominium? Can the Nixon doctrine, with the U.S. nuclear deterrent in the background, assure the security of a regional association? Or will the Japanese — the flag following trade — gather Southeast Asia into a new co-prosperity sphere?

Computer security is now recognised as an important consideration in modern business, with a variety of guidelines and standards currently available to enable different business environments to be properly protected. However, financial and operational constraints often exist which influence the practicality of these recommendations. New baseline security methods such as Australian and New Zealand Standard (AS/NZS) 4444 and British Standard (BS) 7799 represent minimal standards which organisations can use to improve their security. The aim of the paper is to look at the effectiveness of baseline security standards through the use of an evaluation criteria, which assesses their effectiveness.