By Blerim Abedini- Center for Security Studies and Development-Macedonia(CSSD) Russia’s investments in the energy sector in Serbia and Bosnia. Opposing forces to Russia’s return in Balkans. China’s strategic investments for long-term plans for a modern Silk Road as it for boosting exports to the region and by setting trade centersContinue Reading
(CSSD-Macedonia)-Macedonia goes to the parliamentary elections on December 11, 2016. For this Balkan analyst MA Selim Ibraimi spoke on DIPLOMATICUS-NEWS 24. Stay tuned this Thursday 20:30 pm in News 24 -Albania. The political crisis in Macedonia-Albanian opposition. Corruption, DUI and DPA, SDSM and VMRO- in Albanian context. Russia is movingContinue Reading
(CSSD-Macedonia) -If the experts could point to any single book as a starting point for understanding the subject of intelligence from the late twentieth century to today, that single book would be Allen W. Dulles’s The Craft of Intelligence. This classic of spycraft is based on Allen Dulles’s incomparable experienceContinue Reading
CSSD(Macedonia)– A new report from the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation says ISIS is increasingly recruiting former criminals. NPR’s Audie Cornish talks to Peter Neumann, a co-author of the report. Please listen to the audio report of NPR: Photo Credit: OSCEContinue Reading
By Selim Ibraimi-(CSSD) The war on extremism is not as easy as thought by senior officials and politicians who sit around the office. For practitioners and researchers of this phenomenon, extremism and radicalization pose a risk now, day by day is threatening not only the ethnic states but also multi-ethnic societies.Continue Reading
By Selim Ibraimi- Center for Security Studies and Development-Macedonia (CSSD) PART I Reflections on Geopolitics: Intersection of geopolitics in Macedonia.The Balkans and Europe after the Crimean annexation.Russian intervention in Syria. Formation of the regional divisions in Balkans. 1.Due to the crisis in Crimea and Russian expansion in Europe, all WesternContinue Reading
The Byzantine Empire was the first to create a “Bureau of Barbarians” and use it to great effect. It gathered information from all neighboring enemies states (ruler’s personality, power struggles, local customs, etc.), it analyzed reports arriving from envoys, it organized visits for foreign diplomats to Constantinople, and did almostContinue Reading
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DINA TEMPLE-RASTON, NPR-The most effective de-radicalization programs build trust and then challenges a jihadist mindset. A version of this program in Copenhagen, Denmark, is called VINK. A counselor explains the process and the lessons it might hold for the U.S. http://www.npr.org/2016/09/05/492727640/mentoring-program-works-to-prevent-radicalization-in-copenhagen AUDIO: Photo.Washington PostContinue Reading
( Intelligence Unit of CSSD-Macedonia)– An Energy Union is on the rise in the Balkan Peninsula.Trans Adriatic Pipeline (TAP) is going to play a proxy tool for the world powers on building a new energy infrastructure. Regional powers as Turkey and Russia may push Macedonia on wrong directions. US alliesContinue Reading