Emerging Security Challenges. SPRING 2016
Advances in sensors, communications, computing, nano- and bio-technologies, along with new strategies and operational concepts, challenge our policy-making capacity. The Spring 2016 issue of Connections presents the Emerging Security Challenges Working Group of the PfP Consortium and reflections of some of its members on the security and policy implications of technological developments. The second group of papers complements these reflections, focusing on what is now called "hybrid warfare," non-state actors and cyber operations, in particular in the context of the ongoing Russian-Ukrainian conflict.
This issue of Connections. The Quarterly Journal looks into a number of issues: professional military education and its role in deepening defense capabilities with a special focus on the South Caucasus, the defense cooperation of the South Caucasus nations with both Russia and NATO which may result in a new form of a ‘Great Game’ rivalry...