Suchergebnisse

Part I: The EU Internal – External Security Nexus -- Soft Power, European Security Strategy and Radicalism: Cultural, Religious and Dimensional Challenges -- The Strategic Context of the European Security and Defence Policy -- Securitization: Theoretical Underpinnings and Implications -- Small EU Member States and the European Security and Defence Integration -- Part II: EU Operations: From the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) to the European External Action Service (EEAS) -- EU Peace Operations in a Changing World: A Multilayer Evaluation -- European Participation in International Operations: National Decision-Making and the Role of EU Institutions -- The European External Action Service: An Encompassing and Adaptive Agency at the Service of the EU Global Security Strategy? -- The Evolving Role of FRONTEX in Implementing an EU Comprehensive Approach on Security -- The Role of the European Commission / DG ECHO in Crisis Response and Institutional Cooperation for an EU Comprehensive Approach -- Part III: EU, Russia and Transatlantic Challenges -- Russia's Challenges to International Security and the Western Response -- West v. Russia: A Role for Diplomacy -- Transatlantic Relations at a Time of Uncertainty: The Formation of Transatlantic Axis -- Augmenting European Security and Defence: A Multiple Challenge for the EU -- NATO Security Challenges.

The Balkan Peninsula has been an unstable regional security subsystem because of a number of defining and qualitative parameters, namely, overt or covert challenges to the territorial status, interethnic conflicts, the "great idea" syndrome, out-of-system interference, and minority expansionism. In the post–Cold War era, European Union enlargement in the area assisted the establishment of a core of systemic stabilizers that could, under certain conditions, absorb inherent instability. Greece and Bulgaria constitute an axis providing eufunctional input to the regional stability and security equation. Their partnership has been an example of inter-Balkan cooperation and an effort to establish an equilibrium mechanism to enhance the cohesion of the region.