One of the biggest challenges for national governments in implementing security and defense policy has always been how to ensure the military capabilities, which includes personnel, equipment and infrastructure, as well as the doctrine of the operation, organization, training and support. States generally respond on new security environment with creating national armed forces, which has new capabilities able to withstand the current and emerging threats. Effective delivery of national military capabilities, however, requires a systematic approach that beside strategic requirements takes into account also the available resources. In the last ten years the institutional rules that encourage more efficient delivery of military capabilities has been firmly improved in the Republic of Slovenia. Nevertheless, we still faced with a number of defectiveness.
COBISS.SI-ID: 31774813
The aim of the publishing of this complex book is to thoroughly analyze the events, taking place in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia before and especially in 2001, to make an effort to answer the questions of what was happening in all stages of the conflict, and to emphasize the significance of the signed Ohrid Framework Agreement for the European future of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. Authors find the answers to these questions through analysis, combination of theory and case study and combination of theoretical and practical approaches, that is, through a summary of the existing theory, combined with our practical experiences. Through discussions and interviews with representatives of international organizations, international experts and the Macedonian and Albanian politicians, a new view that analyzes the year of 2001 through a prism of scientific facts, is offered not only to the academia, but also to a wide range of practitioners, devoted to constructive conflict resolution. Scientific lessons in theory and practice of conflict resolution have, thus, been ascertained, contributing to the definition of the conflict resolution model and to the enhancement of stability, not only in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, but in the wider region as well.
COBISS.SI-ID: 260595968
At the onset of 2011 an unprecedented wave of social unrest and political upheaval began to sweep across the Middle East and North Africa. Following the first demonstrations in Tunisia, and the flight of its President Ben Ali to Saudi Arabia, the wave has engulfed much of the Arab-speaking world, from Morocco to Bahrain. While some rulers have abdicated peacefully, violence has been a constant. In the majority of cases, the ruling regimes met the spontaneous, massive, and peaceful demonstrations with brutal police repression; some even called in the regular army to strike down unarmed civilians with heavy conventional weapons
COBISS.SI-ID: 31428189