At the turn of the last century outward tranquillity was imposed on the Western Balkans, the most volatile and troublesome part of the European continent. The termination of large scale violence however did not add up to long-term stability in the region. With active and well coordinated roles played by key international organizations, the Western Balkans could be eventually transformed into a region of security, democracy and prosperity.
B.03 Paper at an international scientific conference
COBISS.SI-ID: 28631901The book offers a contemplation about international security structures, crisis management, security situation in the West Balkans, peacekeeping operations and the role of SAF, police and civilian experts in them. The book warns about difficulties and offers solutions for reform of all-volunteer force and volunteer reserve structure of SA, which is also presented in a cross-national comparison perspective. Varios forms of asymetric warfare that occurred on the territory of Slovenia in near past are analysed, as well.
C.02 Editorial board of a national monograph
COBISS.SI-ID: 251524352This book focuses on the security importance of critical infrastructures and presents results from sectoral and cross-sectoral scanning in Slovenia. The book presents results from scanning the energy, financial, transport, health, water and ICT sectors on most serious threats, critical objects, damage in case of their malfunction, cross-sectoral interdependencies, etc. Cross-sectoral systhesis offers a broad overview of the situation in this field and contributes a number of specific recommendations.
C.02 Editorial board of a national monograph
COBISS.SI-ID: 249469952The anthology is a result of the research activities carried out in the Ergomas’ Working Group Public Opinion, Mass Media and the Military. The content is divided into three parts: Part one comprises texts that explore the attitudes of the public and the mass media toward international peacekeeping, crisis management and humanitarian operations and missions, especially toward the military operation International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan (ISAF). Part two considers several salient issues regarding the question of ‘casualty tolerance’ in contemporary societies, the image and the missions of the armed forces, the public’s perceptions of the relationship between political and military systems, and an explanation for the apparent contradiction between a relatively high level of public confidence in the military on one hand and a relatively high level of indifference expressed by the same public on the other hand. In the third part, the authors examine the mass media coverage of wars and explore the role of the media in the political sphere, especially in the question of civilian democratic control of the armed forces. The achievement is extremely important due to the fact that integrates efforts of researchers from several European countries but also from Asia and North America.
C.01 Editorial board of a foreign/international collection of papers/book
COBISS.SI-ID: 30817629The majority of social processes have become very dependent on information andcommunication technologies (ICT) according to their quick development and increasing use. With the emergence of new technologies and growing dependence of society on ICT, threats have emerged, which experts described as new. Information security or cyber dimension of national security has thus become an increasing priority for the countries, but they face these new threats differently. This article contains a specialized in-depth analysis of the situation of ICT in Estonia, Switzerland, Sweden and the United Kingdom. The selection of the countries was based on their ICT development, experience withinformation threats and membership in various political and security organizations. We examined the following indicators: the incidence of threats,normative (legal) acts and actors who are responsible for assuring information security. These indicators subsequently allowed us a detailed understanding of ICT threats faced by selected countries and their responses to them.
F.17 Transfer of existing technologies, know-how, methods and procedures into practice
COBISS.SI-ID: 31001181