CSSD editor’s choice: These metals have become the building blocks of modern society; their properties are now essential for nearly all our electronic, military, and “green” technologies. But their growing use is not without environmental, economic, and geopolitical consequences. Our future hinges on a set of elements that few ofContinue Reading
By Selim Ibraimi-The Center for Security Studies and Development-Macedonia (CSSD) The Western Balkans remain the area of instability. (Stay Tuned)Continue Reading
Fourth Edition Sheds New Light on Open Source Intelligence Collection and Analysis. Author Michael Bazzell has been well known and respected in government circles for his ability to locate personal information about any target through Open Source Intelligence (OSINT). In this book, he shares his methods in great detail. EachContinue Reading
PHOTO OF THE DAY: High ranking US diplomat Victoria Nuland will visit Macedonia on Monday. Regional diplomacy:U.S.- Skopje In the picture: -Victoria Nuland, Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs, Department of State. -Adrian Ismaili, Political Analyst at U.S. Embassy Skopje, Macedonia.Continue Reading
CSSD- SERIES ON SECURITY STUDIES , provides readers with comprehensive background and current informations shaping regional security in the Balkans. Our analysts prepare authoritative, objective and, non-partisan analytical studies with descriptive products on subject to security, political, economic, social, foreign and defense policies. For more then one year, readers ofContinue Reading
By Blerim Abedini- The Center for Security Studies and Development- Macedonia(CSSD) To remind, the Islamic State announced after continuous fighting (opposition) against the Syrian regime. This army of IS, is hybrid, that has defined its own form. This military force has accelerated, disregard deadlines for a peace agreement between centralizedContinue Reading
By Blerim Abedini- The Center for Security Studies and Development- Macedonia(CSSD) Under EU directives, intended to found a modus considering geopolitical barriers. So finding a new alternative for a new line of gas transportation is a challenge for the EU. Given the cancellation of some regional gas lines, a doubtContinue Reading
By Selim Ibraimi- Center for Security Studies and Development- Macedonia (CSSD) Introduction: Oil production and LNG stations in Balkans, especially in the Adriatic. US and Russian interests. The LNG stations and large transit lines present the new approach for the Balkan States as a long strategic plan to get awayContinue Reading
As fitting for the twenty-first century as von Clausewitz’s On War was in its own time, ‘Invisible Armies’ is a complete global history of guerrilla uprisings through the ages. Beginning with the first insurgencies in the ancient world— when Alexander the Great discovered that fleet nomads were harder to defeatContinue Reading
By Blerim Abedini- The Center for Security Studies and Development (CSSD) Will see the contradictions those are presented to the global powers are outside that Synopsis, which is guidance for amortization of crisis that the citizens would consider as purgatory of Dante Alighieri. So history is taught, and that progressContinue Reading
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