Environmental Security in Transnational Contexts: What Relevance for Regional Human Security Regimes?

Environmental Security: Regional Cooperation, Development and Armed Conflict in the Persian Gulf

This article presents the key insights about the environment and security links in the context of the Persian Gulf region. This research paper focuses on the challenge of finding a balance among development, armed conflicts and environmental degradation in the Persian Gulf region. Environmental security challenges are human security, sustainable development and regional cooperation in the Persi...

Iran's Role In Energy Security At Regional And Global Levels

Transnational Criminal Organisations and International Security

To understand the causes of turbulence and disorder in the post– Cold War world it is necessary to examine sub-national and transnational forces as well as inter-state relations. The danger is that the consideration of new security challenges will encourage the fabrication of enemies or security threats. This, however, should not inhibit efforts to reassess the challenges to national and intern...

Information Flow Security in Dynamic Contexts

We study information flow security in the setting of mobile agents. We propose a sufficient condition to security named Persistent BNDC. A process is Persistent BNDC when every of its reachable states satisfies a basic Non-Interference property called BNDC. By imposing that security persists during process execution, one is guaranteed that every potential migration is performed in a stable, sec...

Beyond the Notion of Security Community What Role for the African Regional Organizations in Peace and Security?

African regional organizations’ increasing activity in security policy is usually approached through the concept of a ‘security community’, which can only partially clarify their difficult situation. A multilevel governance model is suggested as a more useful approach in a situation where economic cooperation is weak, member states’ principles of governance diverge, and they themselves might be...