On 14th of November, the French Government signed a three-year cybersecurity pact with Airbus, Dassault Aviation, Thales, Safran, Ariane group, MBDA, Naval Group and Nexter but financial details weren’t disclosed. […]
International Security
Nov.27, Chancellor Angela Merkel said that maintaining the NATO defense alliance is of utmost importance to Germany and Europe. “Maintaining NATO today is even more in our own interests than […]
Nov. 26, President Donald Trump during an interview said that the Mexican drug cartels will be designated as terrorist groups for their role in trafficking narcotics and people, bringing the […]
Earlier this Sunday, the France’s Defence Minister announced that the command post will be operational soon in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates as the headquarters for a European-led mission to […]
Nov. 22, Seoul made a last-minute decision to renew the General Security of Military Information Agreement (GSOMIA) with Japan after USA urged for renewal. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/22/world/asia/japan-south-korea-intelligence.html
Already in 1951, German scholar John H. Herz introduced the notion of the security dilemma to explain unwanted war through the escalation of security measures between nations. Dilemmas like this […]
In 2004 Alex and David Bennet wrote a remarkable (and yet not widely known) book called “Survival in the New World: The Intelligent Complex Adaptive System”. It has been 15 […]
European Union (EU) ports are an integral part of its critical infrastructure. An attack on a major EU port, whether through physical, cyber or a combination of both, could cause […]
Security management is a complex subject. In simple terms it means protecting people and property – keeping people safe and protecting property and possessions. There are many different approaches and […]
The International Security Management MOOC is a learning tool offered by RSM – Erasmus University Rotterdam and developed within the ISM-KA project in line with the development of the Master […]
In recent years, effects of environmental issues, geopolitical changes and economic crises affecting the global society have been worsened by terrorism and its radical expansion due to the combination of […]
Despite not having a common agreed definition of terrorism, we have three elements that appear regularly in all the proposed wordings from different scholars: politics (or ideologies), fear and violence. […]
Press release by the European Commission and the Finnish Presidency of the Council of the EU. Link to the original text: https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/IP_19_6049 On the beginning of October, Member States, with […]
Source: Notes de Seguretat Blog (https://notesdeseguretat.blog.gencat.cat/2019/11/11/the-present-and-future-of-organised-crime-in-the-european-union/) Organised crime has evolved significantly over the last twenty years, especially in terms of the number of criminal organisations, their modus operandi, the use […]
Providing a definition on Serious Organised Crime is not an easy job as it is a complex phenomenon which has been explored by several disciplines like sociology, law, criminology, anthropology […]