The Panama Canal: A Century of Operation…
2016-04-03
By Thomas Shannon Stiles-The Panama Canal: A Century of Operation and the Impact of the Expansion Project PART 2- Sovereignty Issues and Torrijos-Carter Treaties While there is a great deal of history detailing the political changes in Panama and the Canal, post construction, the most significant to this discussion isContinue Reading
17 years of NATO intervention in Kosovo war
2016-04-01
Radio talk- podcast on Thursday, March 24, 2016. Talking about the role of NATO in the Kosovo war, 17 years after NATO bombing of Serbian forces. Online radio conference within cities of Tirana, Prishtina and Skopje. Radio Tirana is presented by Mr. Petro Kochi- Deputy Minister of Defense of Albania.Continue Reading
Smart diplomacy.Who will win?
2016-03-26
By Selim Ibraimi – (Center for Security Studies and Development) China aggressively is pursuing a policy of “invading” economically the Balkans. Around 10 billion dollars of direct investment and loans of the Republic of China and 30 billion dollars of direct line of Chinese money are open packages for theContinue Reading
The Balkans revisited
2016-03-19
By Selim Ibraimi-Center for Security Studies and Development-Macedonia (CSSD) Although Russia has move part of the military hardware from Syria, the landscape of competition between World Powers in the Balkans remains the same. The Europe and partially the Balkans become hot spot of Russia. The U.S., because of the ImperialContinue Reading
The geopolitics of Russia’s military withdrawal
2016-03-17
By Selim Ibraimi – Russia’s geopolitics in international relations is based upon a very clear view of its own national security interest. Intelligence reports from different states have shown that Russia’s military power may achieve for short time important strategic objectives. It is unclear how Russia’s military will act afterContinue Reading
Countering violent extremism: Global threat, local solution
2016-03-17
Part I and II: By Selim Ibraimi- Center for Security Studies and Development- Macedonia (CSSD) Introduction: Global, regional and the local context of phenomena Violent extremism has no religion. The 21 century and decade ahead is changing and international system from bipolarity goes towards multipolarity motion. Extremism and terrorism nowContinue Reading
The threat on critical infrastructure
2016-03-15
By Blerim Abedini, Center for Security Studies and Development-Macedonia (CSSD) Sophistication of information’s security. Safeguarding of critical infrastructure, business companies and strategic lines. Today, the threats and the attacks are bigger than they’ve ever been. The software companies have not in consideration for producing defense infrastructure for Internet. Contemporary studiesContinue Reading
CSSD Security Studies Series
2016-03-13
CSSD SECURITY STUDIES series, 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 of CSSD hadContinue Reading