EDITORIAL

Reviewer: Raagini Sharma  (RIEAS Analyst)

Copyright @ https://www.foreignaffairs.com (Foreign Affairs Magazine) - posted at RIEAS on 2 October 2022.

Title of Article Review: The end of the Military-Industrial Complex, how the Pentagon is adapting itself to globalisation

Author: William J Lynn III

Source of Article: Foreign Affairs, Vol 93, No. 6 (November / December 2014), pp 104 - 110

Published By: Council of Foreign Affairs

Preserved By: JSTOR (short for Journals Storage), a digital library established in 1995 primarily to store the back issues and contents of books.

The Essence

The author through this article highlights the nuances of the Military-Industry Complex, MIC, a term coined by Dwight Eisenhower, and how it is not effective anymore to ensure the technological edge that the US military has been enjoying for the last seven decades. At one hand, the critical defence technologies are no longer the sole province of the US-based defence companies and at other, the Department of Defence (DoD) has failed so far to tap the technological advancements accrued of globalisation. .. Read more

Raagini Sharma
(RIEAS Senior Analyst)

Copyright: @ 2022 Research Institute for European and American Studies (www.rieas.gr) Publication date: 18 September 2022

Note: The article reflects the opinion of the author and not necessarily the views of the Research Institute for European and American Studies (RIEAS).

Introduction

The nuclear scenarios are rapidly changing on the global geo-political landscape for various reasons but the prime reasons are firstly, the threat of use of nuclear arsenal by the nuclear-armed nations; secondly, the increase in the stock-pile and the modernisation of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) by the nuclear states; thirdly, overt and covert aspirations of several countries to acquire nuclear technology and fourthly, the threat of use of nukes by the rogue elements. ... Read more

Shaul Shay
(Senior research fellow at the International Institute for Counterterrorism (ICT) at the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya and former deputy head of Israel’s National Security Council)

Copyright: @ 2022 Research Institute for European and American Studies (www.rieas.gr) Publication date: 11 September 2022

Note: The article reflects the opinion of the author and not necessarily the views of the Research Institute for European and American Studies (RIEAS)

The al Qaeda affiliated al-Shabab has been fighting the Somali government and African Union troops in Somalia for more than a decade, carrying out attacks in Somalia and neighboring Kenya. It adheres to the same global Islamist ideology as Al-Qaeda and has made several public statements pledging allegiance to the group. .... Read more

Dr. Glen Segell (DPhil, FRGS)

(Visiting Professor and Research Fellow in the Department of Political Studies and Governance at the University of the Free State, South Africa. He is also Research Fellow at the Ezri Center for Iran & Gulf States Research, University of Haifa, Israel, and Editor of The Middle East Tracker and The London Security Policy Study. He serves as an Executive Advisory Board Member of the International Political Studies Association Research Committee on Armed Forces and Society. He holds the rank of Brigadier-General (Reserves) and is an expert for NATO STO. His publication record can be viewed at ORCID 0000-0002-4186-2761)

Copyright: @ 2022 Research Institute for European and American Studies (www.rieas.gr) Publication date: 31 August 2022

Note: The article reflects the opinion of the author and not necessarily the views of the Research Institute for European and American Studies (RIEAS)

Introduction

Israeli police and security services expected an increase in domestic unrest during the Muslim month of Ramadan as is normal every year. There is always friction on the Temple Mount / Al Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem and this has the potential to spread throughout the country was it did last year in 2021.

However they were unprepared for the violent domestic events that started in March 2022 just prior to Ramadan. This year there were terrorist attacks in the heart of Israeli cities and the intelligence services didn’t have any prior information. Some of the attacks were perpetrated by those affiliated with the Islamic State (ISIS), even though it doesn’t have a recognized affiliate in Israel. This was a first even though the scenario had been considered for over a decade due to the presence and activities of ISIS in neighboring states. ... Read more

Leo Lin and Dean Karalekas
(Leo Lin is a RIEAS senior analyst; Dean Karalekas is a research fellow at the Centre of Austronesian Studies at the University of Central Lancashire, UK)

Copyright: @ 2022 Research Institute for European and American Studies (www.rieas.gr) Publication date: 10 August 2022

Note: The article reflects the opinion of the author and not necessarily the views of the Research Institute for European and American Studies (RIEAS)

The recent visit to Taiwan by US Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has garnered significant media attention, the tenor of which has varied widely between strong praise to the Speaker for supporting a fellow democracy with shared values, and disapprobation for upsetting Taiwan’s powerful neighbor, the People’s Republic of China (PRC). To register their displeasure with the Speaker’s visit, as well as a show of strength for domestic audiences within China, the leaders of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) ordered a series of live-fire missile drills around the island nation and placed a number of economic sanctions on Taiwan. ...Read more

Darko Obradović, M.Sc.
(Program Director, Center for Strategic Analysis, Serbia)

Copyright: @ 2022 Research Institute for European and American Studies (www.rieas.gr) Publication date: 7 August 2022

Note: The article reflects the opinion of the author and not necessarily the views of the Research Institute for European and American Studies (RIEAS)

The Western Balkans met the Russian aggression against Ukraine with a lot of open questions. The process of normalization of relations between Belgrade and Pristina is in the phase of intensive care, many are already predicting clinical death. Is that the correct diagnosis? We will try to analyze it in the following lines. The situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina does not seem any better than before February 24, 2022. The assembly of North Macedonia adopted Macron's proposal, and we can say that North Macedonia has taken another significant step toward EU integration, where it has clearly demarcated whether to stay in the dilemmas of the 19th century as good excuses to hold back full Euro-Atlantic integration or wants to move forward. Montenegro is still recovering from perhaps the biggest crisis since its independence... Read more