So, what is contingency planning? If you ask Bersano, it’s creating an emergency-response framework that results in retaining a healthy, motivated, dedicated workforce during and after crises. “The power of relationship building from a crisis is extreme,” Bersano says. “It’s building a re...
Hardly. The former Yugoslavia remains an area of significant instability. Morton H. Halperin, the Director of Policy Planning Staff of the U.S. Department of State, said of the Balkans: [It] is the crossroads where the Western and Orthodox branches of Christianity and the Islamic world meet....
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Failed states also tend to be hotbeds for a variety of other international threats. Small arms flow worldwide from Central Asia. Afghanistan’s economy depends almost solely on narcotics exports. The Balkans and the Republic of the Congo are now bases for the human trafficking of women and chi...
inept politicians and external powers with perceived or real geopolitical interests. The most recent experience is from the Balkans. The outcome was disastrous from a humanitarian point of view. Looked at as a geopolitical game it was a complete victory for NATO and the EU, as Yugoslavia was sp...
This research aims to assess the most significant and potentially lasting effects of the Ukrainian crisis on the structure, volume, and directions of Western Balkans international trade. The analysis refers only to trade with Russia and the European Union (EU) as t...
The policy adjustment corresponds to the nature of the crisis and original governance structures. In ASEAN, it is characterized somewhat both by a deepening of regional cooperation and a widening of risk-pooling beyond the borders of the region (ASEAN Plus). On the EU side, the policy response...
Should we care about the loss of Spain, France, Italy, the Balkans, Turkey, Tunisia? Look at what they say is in store for Mexico. Should we notice? Should we care? Maybe it’s just easier, psychologically, to swallow the lie that these scientists who devote their lives to their work...
Another surprising but reasonable fact is that a number of post-Cold War democracies in central and eastern Europe, especially in the Balkans, rank high in the COVID-19 death rate. Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Romania, Slovakia, ...