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The Amu Darya river marks a large part of the border between Afghanistan & its northern neighbors Tajikistan, Turkmenistan & Uzbekistan. Until the end of the Soviet Union, this border could hardly be passed & formed a line of separation between different paths of development. Today, security is the first maxim of Central Asian border policy. Nonetheless, the beginnings of trans-border co-operation are gradually taking shape. Tables. Adapted from the source document.

Chronology of Swiss security policy, 2001. Available at: http://www.ssn.ethz.ch/

Examines perceptions of West and East Germans regarding national and internal security, contribution of international organizations, and European integration; based on a 1993 survey conducted by the EMNID-Institut.

The article discusses cooperation and coordination regarding security policies on both a horizontal level (government and administration with different departments and authorities) and on a vertical level (government and administration with federations and counties). Analyzed is the decision of the Federal Council of May 2008 concerning the ending of a departmental reorganization regarding a security department, and questions are posed on the consequences of this decision regarding strategic crisis management in Switzerland. References. O. van Zijl

This article examines civil conflict treatment in Germany, showing how Germany's more active participation in conflict management is rooted in a new understanding of its role in the post Cold War era and in its traditional self perception as a nation of civil power. Germany's stronger military and civil engagement has not comprehensively altered its foreign and security policy course, despite political changes.