Skopje:Debate on Countering Violent Extremism (CVE)
From the debate on CVE, Skopje, Macedonia.What is next for the region? Foreign fighters,education and integration.Experts,journalists and representatives of religious community have discussed all causes and options how to prevent violent extremism in the Balkans.Themes: Dynamics,approaches,empowering local partners,the role of media to prevent violence,inter- culture,inter-faith, inter-dialogues, global and regional challenges,Continue Reading
U.S. Elections: Live analysis with Selim Ibraimi and Berat Azizi
US elections and policy changes of administration for the Balkans and Europe. What next for Macedonia? Could Washington changes the strategy on Albanians? For more information please watch the video interview for TVART TETOVO, MACEDONIA with Selim Ibraimi and Berat Azizi. (CSSD-MACEDONIA) Continue Reading
Political Challenges of the Balkan Peninsula
By Blerim Abedini, the Center for Security Studies and Development- Macedonia (CSSD) Uneven regional development is correlated with poor coordination of political decisions brought in the regional meetings. Cohesion of decision-making that we see in the leaderships of the Balkan countries, is influenced also by uncertain pressures made by internationalContinue Reading
Power vacuum in the Balkans. Russian offensive and Western Allies
By Selim Ibraimi- The Balkans remain the area of instability. Even though the security and stabilization has been improved since the 1999, the region fails back on current trends. Migration of Syrian refugees dramatically has change the Western Balkans and had direct impact on the feature of the region. Russia’s offensiveContinue Reading
Revived “Turkish Stream”, Macedonia hopes for connection
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
Selim Ibraimi discusses elections, nationalism and U.S. policy in Macedonia
(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
The craft of intelligence
(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
IS Recruits Criminals To Carry Out Attacks In Europe, Report Finds
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
Lack of resources on preventing extremism in Macedonia
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
Elections: dream or nightmare for Macedonia
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