Strengthening of Reaction Capability of European Union. Challenges and Perspectives of Western Balkans. FALL 2014
The Fall 2014 issue of Connections presents ideas on the strengthening of the rapid reaction capability of the European Union and ways and means by which regional alliances may effectively confront hostile regional powers. It provides insight into the challenges and perspectives of the economic development of the Western Balkans and the peaceful, democratic transition of power in Georgia. The final maritime security report provides in-depth analysis of the efforts to defeat piracy off the East and the West coasts of Africa, and explanation why they succeed to a different degree.
The Fall 2015 issue of Connections: The Quarterly Journal addresses two main themes: (1) how the Ukraine crisis is perceived in Central Asia, and (2) can the NATO campaign against Milosevic in 1999 and the independence of Kosovo, declared several years later, serve as precedent, and justification, for Russia's annexation of Crimea. Other artic...