Coordination: Isabel Ferreira Nunes
Authors:
Carlos Coutinho Rodrigues
Carlos Gaspar
Vicente Freire
Alexandre Caldas
Isabel Ferreira Nunes
Luís Eduardo Saraiva
José Fânzeres
Alexandre Carriço
António Paulo Duarte
Every year IDN promotes a resident research seminar, during which the results of projects and studies developed by its advisors throughout the year are presented. Considering the internal nature of this seminar and the public interest of its results, it was thought that its publication in a volume of the Athena collection would provide an opportunity to disseminate IDN research to a broader audience.
This is how this volume "Segurança Internacional - Perspetivas Analíticas" came about. The different chapters of the book reflect the study of various topics in international relations, security and defence and represent the plurality of perspectives, academic backgrounds and paths that characterize – and well – the IDN's staff of advisors and collaborators.
In this way, the reading public will be able to find here an up-to-date view of the crucial issues that today mark the intellectual debate on global security, with implications for the security and defence of Portugal: the challenges facing the United States' positioning in the unipolar order and its impact on the theoretical plane of international relations; analysis of the need for comprehensive and integrated strategies for the reconstruction of fragile states and their societies; the debate on the issues raised by cybersecurity; the analysis of the performance of the European Union's security and defence policy in the context of global security; the analysis of energy security in the context of relations between the European Union and Turkey; the energy geopolitics of the Russian Federation; Sino-American perceptions of (in)security.
The volume ends with a comparative study between security and defence education policies in France and Spain, a timely reading when, in Portugal, the Ministries of National Defense and Education have just given a decisive impetus towards inclusion curriculum of security and defence subjects.
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