The Global Security Environment

2010 ◽  
pp. 36-53
Author(s):  
Norrin M. Ripsman ◽  
T. V. Paul
Keyword(s):  
Global Security ◽  
Security Environment

The Evolved Security Dynamics of South Asia: Challenges to Pakistan’s Nuclear Threshold

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (Summer 2020) ◽  
pp. 75-86
Author(s):  
Haris Bilal Malik ◽  
Muhammad Abbas Hassan
Keyword(s):  
South Asia ◽  
Threshold Level ◽  
Security Architecture ◽  
Unresolved Issue ◽  
Muslim Community ◽  
Global Security ◽  
Security Environment ◽  
Military Modernization

The longstanding unresolved issue of Kashmir serves as a nuclear flashpoint between India and Pakistan. Since 2019, the prevalent security environment of the region has dominated the discourse surrounding the regional and global security architecture. India’s policies during the Pulwama-Balakot crisis and the revocation of Kashmir’s constitutional status demonstrate the country’s intentions of dominating the escalation ladder in the region and marginalizing the muslim community of Kashmir. Because of the conventional disparity in South Asia where India is big interms of size, economy and military build-up, Pakistan has been further threatened by India’s aggressive policies and provocative military modernization. Consequently, Pakistan may be compelled to further revisit its nuclear threshold level to overcome India’s aggression.

The future of African security

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Emerson ◽  
Hussein Solomon
Keyword(s):  
Security System ◽  
Security Threats ◽  
Viable Option ◽  
Global Security ◽  
Security Environment ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Unstable States

Africa is a security environment fraught with many dangers, but one too that presents great opportunities for addressing the most pressing global—and not just African—challenges. With more than its share of fragile, unstable states, impoverished societies, and endemic conflict, the continent was once seen almost exclusively as an incubator of instability and insecurity; a venue for addressing rising challenges and an exporter of global security threats. But this is no longer the case. Africa, like everywhere else in the world, is becoming increasingly integrated into a globalized security system, whereby Africans are just as vulnerable to threats emanating from outside the continent as they are from home-grown ones. Thus, Africa—and what happens there—matters more than ever. Simply ignoring it and hoping for the best through a policy of containment and isolation is not a viable option in today’s globalized and interdependent world.

Nuclear Weapons & Nuclear Use

Daedalus ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 145 (4) ◽  
pp. 50-61 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Robert Kehler
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Nuclear Weapons ◽  
Nuclear Deterrence ◽  
Complete Elimination ◽  
Global Security ◽  
Quarter Century ◽  
Nuclear Arsenal ◽  
Security Environment ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
The U.S

While nuclear weapons were conceived to end a war, in the aftermath of their operational use at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, they became the central (and controversial) means to prevent a war. Nuclear deterrence formed the foundation of U.S. Cold War doctrine and the basis of an extended security guarantee to our allies. But the Cold War ended one-quarter century ago, and questions about the efficacy of deterrence, the need for nuclear weapons, and the ethics surrounding them have resurfaced as some call for further major reductions in inventory or the complete elimination of the U.S. nuclear arsenal. Discussed from the perspective of a military practitioner, this essay highlights the continuing need for U.S. nuclear weapons in a global security environment that is highly complex and uncertain, and describes the means by which the credibility of the nuclear portion of the strategic deterrent is being preserved even as the role and prominence of these weapons have been reduced.

Sixty Years After Hiroshima, A New Nuclear Era

2005 ◽  
Vol 104 (681) ◽  
pp. 147-152
Author(s):  
Thomas Graham
Keyword(s):  
Global Security ◽  
Security Environment

Sixty years into the atomic era, much has changed in the global security environment, but the peril of nuclear holocaust remains.

Part III Security Governance Tools, Ch.43 United Nations Peacekeeping: A View from the Ground

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kusi Benjamin F
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Global Security ◽  
Human Rights Abuses ◽  
Peacekeeping Operations ◽  
Security Environment ◽  
Conflict Situations ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Governance Tools ◽  
United Nations Peacekeeping

This chapter addresses the role of United Nations peacekeeping operations in an extraordinarily complex and rapidly evolving global security environment. It particularly focuses on lessons learned from peacekeeping taking place in African countries. There is no doubt that peacekeeping operations have made a positive contribution to global security, for instance by assisting the restoration of peace in war-torn countries and communities. Nevertheless, there have also been major downsides, with certain operations doing more harm than good. Without exception, peacekeeping operations have given rise to a wide range of legal and policy challenges. Examples include the ambiguous legal basis for the use of force by the missions, the quest for accountability for human rights abuses by peacekeepers, and the increasing use of private security companies and other subcontractors. The chapter considers the applicable legal framework and the role of the United Nations Security Council, particularly that of the five Permanent Members (P5) in authorizing peacekeeping operations. It also looks at recent developments in contemporary multidimensional operations, as well as the outcomes of peacekeeping missions in terms of their pacifying but also at times destabilizing role in conflict situations.

The Oxford Handbook of the International Law of Global Security

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
First Century ◽  
Global Security ◽  
Public International Law ◽  
Security Governance ◽  
Security Environment ◽  
Security Challenges ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Relationship

Understanding the global security environment and delivering the necessary governance responses is a central challenge of the twenty-first century. On a global scale, the central regulatory tool for such responses is public international law. But what is the state, role, and relevance of public international law in today’s complex and highly dynamic global security environment? The Oxford Handbook of the International Law of Global Security provides a groundbreaking overview of the relationship between international law and global security. It constitutes a comprehensive and systematic mapping of the various sub-fields of international law dealing with global security challenges, and offers authoritative guidance on key trends and debates around the relationship between public international law and global security governance. The Handbook features original contributions by leading scholars and practitioners from a wide range of professional and disciplinary backgrounds, reflecting the fluidity of the concept of global security and the diversity of scholarship in this area.

North Atlantic Early Warning (Naεw) Εvolution in Maјor Сonflicts

2018 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 93-97
Author(s):  
Mihai Iordache
Keyword(s):  
North Atlantic ◽  
Early Warning ◽  
Early Warning System ◽  
Warning System ◽  
Global Environment ◽  
The Political ◽  
Global Security ◽  
Security Environment ◽  
Air Space

Abstract The security of the regional and global environment is an issue of major concern for the political and military deciding factors, especially in the current security environment marked by profound and surprising changes at geopolitical and geostrategical level. In the early 1970s, different studies of NATO indicated that a system of airborne early warning (AEW) would considerably increase the defense of the air space of the Alliance. The Committee of Planning Defense of NATO (СΡD) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on the acquisition and operational use of an Airborne Early Warning system. The Airbornе Warning & Сontrol Systеm (AWAСS) is a developed and well-organized system, which can be permanently improved and adapted to the present realities generated by the dynamics of regional and global security. The paper presents its evolution and benefits

scholarly journals Networks of Threats: Interconnection, Interaction, Intermediation

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 45-69
Author(s):  
Julien Theron
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Global Approach ◽  
Collective Security ◽  
Global Security ◽  
Threat Analysis ◽  
Security Environment ◽  
Antagonistic Threats ◽  
Strategic Studies

The rapidly changing global security environment requires to constantly adapt our understanding of threats. The findings of this paper confirm that threats interact with each other on three levels. Security, conflict, war, and strategic studies converge to build a new qualitative theoretical framework for threat analysis. Shaping the global security environment, threats communicate on three levels. Firstly, the interconnection of agents with similar ideological and/or strategic motivations connects threats. Secondly, interaction exacerbates incidental threats through cooperation, competition, and convergence. Thirdly, intermediation occurs between antagonistic threats trying to achieve common intermediary objectives. These networks are driven by agents maximizing their impact and reveals the autonomization and socialization of threats. Tackling these networks requires a global approach and the mobilization of collective security.

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