Macedonia: Internal Security Challenges – A Mismatch in the Macedonian Defence Institutions

The Challenges and Strategic Imperatives of Nigeria’s Defense and Internal Security Measures since the Fourth Republic

The year 1999 marks a remarkable turnaround in Nigeria’s history and bid for global reckoning as a democratic nation having grappled with a sustained military rule for many decades after her independence. However, with the country’s return to democratic rule, many teething problems evolved which of course is not strange to young and emerging democracies such as Nigeria’s particularly after many...

Cooperation & Conflict in Transatlantic Defence and Security Structure

The both Atlantic side relations from the ancient time had been faced with too much challenge but the continuing of this relation is due to the common political and economical interests. The upper Atlantic and the two organizations (NATO, EU) still exist to gain the essential goals and the political and security connection which are boosting with the economical integration at the same time. But...

Nato’s Defence against Terrorism Program Emerging Security Challenges Division

Smart defence: an architecture for new challenges to cyber security

The last years have seen an unprecedented amount of attacks. Intrusions on IT-Systems are rising constantly both from a quantitative as well as a qualitative point of view. Recent examples like the hack of the Sony Playstation Network or the compromise of RSA are just some examples of high-quality attack vectors. Since these Smart Attacks are specifically designed to permeate state of the art t...

Explaining institutions: A defence of reductionism

New institutionalism is an approach to the study of social events that is becoming increasingly popular. Different lines of new institutional research can be distinguished. In one line of research it is argued that the social sciences should transcend reductionist modes of explanation, in particular the methodological individualism exemplified by the theory of rational choice. In this view, red...