The work was partially supported by a NATO grant PST.CLG.977017, a Marie Curie Fellowship, a Royal Society and a Wellcome Foundation grant. Partially supported by Programme Bioinformatique inter EPST and the French Ministry of Research through the ACI NIM. Partially supported by Programme Bioinformatique inter EPST and the French Ministry of Research through the ACI NIM, and by Royal Society, N...

In this chapter, we examine new technology, security, and military trends—as reflected in top-level DoD guidance and visions of future military operations—to identify interoperability challenges that U.S. and NATO allies’ air forces will need to address over the next decade. We consider the following factors: the changing international security environment, the budgetary and programmatic enviro...

By the late 1950s, the Soviet Union had acquired a strong position as a world oil exporter, thanks to major discoveries in the Ural-Volga area. In order to transport their oil to strategic areas within the Union and to Europe, the Soviets devised a project to build a colossal pipeline system. This plan caused anxiety at NATO since Russian oil could be wielded as a weapon to weaken the West both...

One significant way in which the duplication issue has remained important emerged from the introduction of another factor. By the time of St. Mâlo and the first U.S. formal response to it, the NATO Alliance was also “seized of” concerns about its own military resources and capacities. Having successfully completed the design phase of adapting the NATO Alliance to meet the challenges of the post...

People typically process information to confirm their prior held attitudes and stereotypes. As the political relations between NATO and Russia have distinctively drifted apart in recent years, we were interested in how far old-established color depictions referring to the Cold War's demarcations (USSR = red; NATO = blue) might reinforce people's political perception of an East versus West antag...

Június 28-30 között került sor a NATO madridi csúcstalálkozójára, ahol hidegháború óta példátlan biztonsági környezetben kell válaszokat találnia szövetségnek az aktuális kihívásokra. A NATO-csúcstalálkozót megelőző elemzés publikálásával hármas célunk volt. Egyfelől röviden áttekinteni azt két területet, amely években fontos volt katonai adaptációja szempontjából, másfelől bemutatni magyar biz...

, newly elected ukrainian parliament still unable to make any definite decision concerning possible head of ukrainian security service. Who comes to us with a sword dies from the sword. 1. Why ukrainian parliament decides the question of NATO membership 2. Who is responsible 3. Ukraine is a slavic country 4. Some further perspectives The following brief survey may be considered as some comments...

We discuss the problem of computing the volume of a convex body K in R. We review worst-case results which show that it is hard to deterministically approximate voln K and randomised approximation algorithms which show that with randomisation one can approximate very nicely. We then provide some applications of this latter result. •Supported by NATO grant RG0088/89 t Supported by NSF grant CCR-...