scholarly journals Armenia’s transport security within the framework of ITC TRACECA and “North-South”

2018 ◽  
Vol 212 ◽  
pp. 05004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vahe Davtyan
Keyword(s):  
National Security ◽  
Potential Role ◽  
Transport Policy ◽  
Integration Process ◽  
The North ◽  
International Transport ◽  
Transport Safety

The issues of transport policy of Armenia in the context of integration into the international corridors (ITC) TRACECA and the "North-South" are considered. The key geopolitical factors impeding the integration process are identified. The basic threats to Armenia’s transport safety as an important component of national security are determined. The potential role of Armenia in the implementation of the TRACECA transport corridor at the opening of the Armenian-Turkish border is identified. The possibility of Armenia’s integration into the international transport corridor "North-South" through the implementation of the project of construction of Iran-Armenia is revealed.

scholarly journals The EU’s Potential Role in the Six Party Talks and the North Korean Nuclear Crisis

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 247-283 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew S. Millard ◽  
Chae-Deug Yi
Keyword(s):  
Soft Power ◽  
Potential Role ◽  
Democratic Republic ◽  
Northeast Asia ◽  
Nuclear Program ◽  
Building Trust ◽  
The North ◽  
Nuclear Crisis ◽  
The Eu

AbstractDiscourse on the Six Party Talks has focused solely on denuclearisation. Through the power struggles of the members and the refusal of the People’s Democratic Republic of Korea (DPRK) to return to negotiations, the Six Party Talks have been stalled since 2008. Due to current increased tensions and the use of brinkmanship tactics the Talks must be restarted, albeit under a reformed shape. This paper analyses the potential role of the EU in furthering the peace process in Northeast Asia. This paper suggests that the EU needs to be more assertive and the Talks should focus on building trust and cooperation, not on the DPRK’s nuclear program. With its impartiality, experience in integration and use of soft power, the EU can act as an effective mediator building trust.

The Czechoslovak Factor in Western Alliance Building, 1945–1948

2016 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 133-160
Author(s):  
Peter Svik
Keyword(s):  
National Security ◽  
The United States ◽  
Coup D'etat ◽  
Security Issues ◽  
The North ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
Alliance Building ◽  
The Impact

This article assesses the role of the Czechoslovak coup d’état in February 1948 in the establishment of the Brussels Pact a month later and formation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in April 1949. The article places these developments in the larger context of post-1945 national security policymaking in several countries, weighing the impact of the Czechoslovak coup on relations among seven countries on national security issues at the outset of the Cold War: Czechoslovakia, France, the United Kingdom, the three Benelux countries, and the United States. The article shows that the only proper way to evaluate the effect of the Communist takeover in Czechoslovakia on the formation of the Western alliance is by looking at the considerations present in each country and seeing how they interacted with one another. The Czechoslovak factor varied in its magnitude from country to country.

scholarly journals Caspian Vector of the EAEU Transport and Logistics Policy

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (5) ◽  
pp. 177-192
Author(s):  
I. B. Mamedov
Keyword(s):  
Transport Policy ◽  
Passenger Traffic ◽  
The North ◽  
Eurasian Economic Union ◽  
Central Asian ◽  
International Transport ◽  
Silk Road Economic Belt ◽  
Pass Through ◽  
Labor Resources ◽  
The Silk Road

One of the goals of the Eurasian Economic Union is the formation of single markets for goods, services, capital and labor resources. A key aspect for the realization of the stated goal is the development of the EAEU transport and logistics potential. The formation of a single transport space, ensuring the free movement of goods and passenger traffic require an expansion of the EAEU participation in main international logistics projects, as well as the achievement of an agreed transport policy of member states. The purpose of this article is to determine the possibilities and limitations of interactions between the EAEU and Azerbaijan, Iran and Turkmenistan in the transport and logistics sphere. The article analyses the main directions and objectives of the EAEU transport policy, assesses the dynamics of the main indicators of the Union’s transport activities. The author considered key international transport projects for the EAEU. Logistics programs and corridors that pass through the territories of Azerbaijan, Iran and Turkmenistan are highlighted: the North-South international transport corridor, the EAEU and the Silk Road Economic Belt interface project, as well as the Central Asian regional economic cooperation programs and the Europe-Caucasus-Asia corridor project. The transit potential of the Caspian region in general and the territories of the represented countries in particular was studied. Analysis of the retrospective of relations of the EAEU with these countries is presented. The main result of the study is a description of promising areas of cooperation, individual projects and formats of cooperation in the transport and logistics sphere between the EAEU and the countries of the southern Caspian Sea. The author concludes that it is necessary to rehabilitate and reactualize the idea of the “Great Eurasian Partnership” in the light of the identified restrictions for the full integration of South Caspian countries into the EAEU.

scholarly journals The European crisis and global economy dynamics: Continental enlargement versus Atlantic opening

2014 ◽  
Vol 61 (5) ◽  
pp. 543-569
Author(s):  
António Mendonça
Keyword(s):  
European Integration ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
Potential Role ◽  
Driving Forces ◽  
Integration Process ◽  
Fundamental Idea ◽  
International Crisis ◽  
Adjustment Mechanism ◽  
European Crisis

The fundamental idea we discuss in this paper is that the failure of Europe to deal with the international crisis is due, first and foremost, to the deepening of a more specific crisis that affected the very process of European integration and developed through two main channels: one, broader, linked to the erosion of the original driving forces underpinning integration in Europe; another, more circumscribed, linked to the malfunctioning of the euro as an internal adjustment mechanism of the currency zone. To deal with these structural dimensions of the crisis, we put forward a model of a Global Europe against the model of Continental Europe that has dominated the integration process until now and in this alternative framework we discuss the potential role of Portugal and of the Community of Portuguese Speaking Countries.

Raetic and Runes

2020 ◽  
Vol 73 (1) ◽  
pp. 153-192
Author(s):  
Corinna Salomon
Keyword(s):  
Potential Role ◽  
Detailed Comparison ◽  
The North ◽  
Current State ◽  
State Of Research

Abstract The paper investigates the potential role of the Raetic inscription corpus for the derivation of the Germanic futhark. It gives an overview of the North Italic corpora and the current state of research, focussing on the Raetic epigraphical evidence. A detailed comparison of the grapheme inventories of Raetic and Runic as well as their respective epigraphical characteristics shows that the Raetic alphabets do not serve as convincing models for the Runic script.

Emerging Life-Style Movements: Alternative to Overdevelopment?

1979 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 275-305 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bart van Steenbergen ◽  
Gordon Feller
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Life Style ◽  
Potential Role ◽  
Voluntary Simplicity ◽  
Life Styles ◽  
The North ◽  
Industrialized Nations ◽  
Potential Impact ◽  
First World

This essay looks at the actual and potential role of emerging alternative life-style movements in dealing with the crisis of overdevelopment in the advanced industrialized nations. It examines the problems posed by overdevelopment and shows how two alternative life-style movements - the North American Movement for Voluntary Simplicity and the New Life-style Movement in the Netherlands - represent positive responses to them. Their values, objectives, as well as their potential impact upon their societies are analysed and critically examined. In this critique, the authors consider the conditions under which alternative life-styles might be more widely adopted in First World societies in general.

scholarly journals Spring fuelling by arctic Dunlins Calidris a. alpina in the southern Baltic and the potential role of a changing climate

Ornis Svecica ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 22 (3–4) ◽  
pp. 80-92
Author(s):  
Johan Stedt ◽  
Åke Lindström
Keyword(s):  
Potential Role ◽  
Average Rate ◽  
Baltic Region ◽  
Spring Temperature ◽  
The North ◽  
Warming Climate ◽  
Breeding Grounds ◽  
The North Sea ◽  
The Baltic

In spring, Dunlins Calidris a. alpina put on substantial fuel stores in the North Sea region before a long flight to breed in northwest Russia. There are hitherto no well-described fuelling sites in the Baltic region. In May and early June in 2004–2010 we trapped more than 1000 Dunlins at Ottenby, south-east Sweden. Most birds carried substantial fuel loads already when first trapped (much more than in autumn) and, more importantly, 37 within-season re-traps increased in mass at an average rate of 1.2 g/d. This corresponds to a fuelling rate of about 2.6% of lean body mass per day, among the highest recorded for this species. Stopover times were short; only 3.5% of the birds were re-trapped and they stayed on average only 2.2 days. Since the late 1970s, increasing numbers of Dunlins stop over at successively earlier dates. This coincides with an increase in spring temperature of 1.1–2.0°C in 1977–2010. Possibly, a warming climate has facilitated and selected for a gradual shift of the final fuelling sites closer towards the breeding grounds.

scholarly journals NATO and the Role of Societal Resilience and Willingness to Defend Own Country

2021 ◽  
pp. 18-28
Author(s):  
Mārtiņš Vargulis ◽  
Keyword(s):  
National Security ◽  
North Atlantic ◽  
North Atlantic Treaty Organization ◽  
Member States ◽  
The North ◽  
Policies And Measures ◽  
The North Atlantic ◽  
Societal Resilience ◽  
The Baltic

As a part of the overarching publication “Willingness to Defend Own Country in the Baltic States: Implications for National Security and NATO’s Collective Defence” (2021), author of this chapter analyses policies and measures of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in fostering societal resilience and willingness to defend own country. The author underlines that the concept of resilience has gained additional foothold in the recent years in NATO. Notwithstanding that, interaction with the member states’ societies and resilience thereof primarily remains the responsibility of NATO member states themselves.

Part IV Power Politics, International Law, and Global Security, Ch.47 Europe

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Methymaki Eleni ◽  
Ozcelik Asli
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
National Security ◽  
North Atlantic Treaty Organization ◽  
The European Union ◽  
European Security ◽  
Global Security ◽  
Power Politics ◽  
The North ◽  
The North Atlantic

This chapter discusses the role of Europe as an actor of global (in)security. The place of Europe in the global security landscape is often analysed with a focus on the European Union or the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, or both. But European States’ security approaches are not subsumed under the policies and politics of these organizations. The chapter looks at the National Security Strategies (NSSs) of nineteen European States to identify the security approaches of European States’ from their national perspectives, inquiring at the same time whether an embryonic ‘European’ security perspective emerges from them. To evaluate whether this is borne out in practice, the chapter then considers two spheres of securitization which, as evident from the NSSs, are perceived as essential to the maintenance of Europe itself: security at its borders and in its wider neighbourhood.

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