Volume 34 (2016), Edition 3

The article illustrates how U.S. security policy discourse constructs China and Russia as threats of distinct qualities. Since articulations of another state as threat can constitute boundaries towards that state and thus conflict potential, the...

After the demise of the Soviet Union, the West considered Russia to be a partner that shares common goals and values. Russia’s annexation of Crimea and its destabilization of Eastern Ukraine took many by surprise. It showed that Russia’s and the...

Over the past few years, threat responses in China shifted from territorial integrity concerns to vulnerability reduction and risk containment. On the other side, the Chinese Armed Forces are preparing for a war with an undefined adversary under...

This paper proposes a review of the Brazilian perspective for South Atlantic maritime security to recognize and articulate the United States and European Union’s initiatives. First, the article shows the main threats to South Atlantic security,...

The article traces the intricacies of the South African threat agenda since 1994. Historically, the South African threat agenda at various times had to contend with the influence of European powers in Africa, the possibility of a landward invasion...

This article examines the evolution of the threat perception and security conceptions in German foreign policy since the end of the Cold War within the framework of the Euro-Atlantic security architecture. It is argued that German security policy...

The tremendous changes in the security agenda since the evolution of the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) of the European Union (EU) call for a revision of Europe’s security and defense system. This contribution aims to analyse threat...

Anyone performing or omitting an action inevitably faces the problem that success depends upon the cooperation of also those who follow a morally dubious agenda and who try to avail themselves of this cooperation. The same is true in politics. When...

Global cyber-space is undergoing fundamental change. There are now frequent references to a “fragmentation of the Internet”, but many European and international working groups are also increasingly aware that “a free, open and at the same time...