Contents
The Persistent Demand for Defense Institution Building
NATO’s Defense Institution Building and Projecting Stability: Current Priorities and Activities
Defense Institution Building in the U.S. Context
NATO’s Defense Institution Building in the Age of Hybrid Warfare
Defense Against Negative Strategic Communications
Defense Institution Building from Above? Lessons from the Baltic Experience
Ukraine’s Security Sector Reform: Is Ukraine Taking Western Advice?
Defence Institution Building in Ukraine at Peace and at War
Defense Education Enhancement Program in Ukraine: The Limits of NATO’s Education Program
The Fall 2012 issue of Connections: The Quarterly Journal is dedicated to defense education reform in partner countries and the role the PfP Consortium and NATO play through the Defense Education Enhancement Program. It covers requirements to modern professional military education and the way advanced Western educational institutions approach these requirements, including through joint and multinational approaches, emphasis on the learner and the opportunities for networking advanced technologies provide.
Individual articles present the experience of Armenia, Azerbaijan, Moldova, Kazakhstan, and Bosnia & Herzegovina, and the advances these partner countries have made through the exchange with experienced educators from NATO countries.
Previous Issue
Since the fall of the Soviet Union, Russia has been unprecedented in its embrace of modern technology for the execution of its foreign policy and intelligence operation. This article examines Russia’s relationship to the internet and computer technology, beginning with the early 1990s and detailing the growth of technology’s popularity with the Rus...
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