Suchergebnisse

1.Maritime security, capacity building and the Western Indian Ocean -- 2.Theorizing capacity building -- 3.Israel: Traditional approaches to securitizing the maritime domain -- 4.Building Maritime Security in Pakistan – the navy vanguard -- 5.South Africa: Maritime security sector reform -- 6.Western Indian Ocean: Multilateral capacity building initiatives -- 7.Kenya: From 'sea-blind' to 'sea-vision' -- 8.Seychelles: Island solutions and capacity building successes -- 9.Djibouti: Ports, politics and piracy -- 10.Somalia: Experiments in knowing and doing capacity building -- 11.Conclusion: Governing the maritime - providing international assistance.

Whose interests does British foreign policy serve? Is the national interest a useful explanatory tool for foreign policy analysts? This interdisciplinary collection responds to these questions exploring ideas of Britain's national interest and their impact on strategy, challenging current thinking and practice in the making of foreign policy.

"For over a decade, British foreign policy has been criticised for lacking strategic thinking. Academics describe a 'strategy gap' and note that old ideas about Britain's role in the world continue to be recycled even today. This collection aims to address this issue by re-examining the ideas of Britain's national interest and their impact on strategy, to challenge current thinking and practice in the making of foreign policy. Applying interdisciplinary approaches to British foreign policy, this volume analyses a range of issues asking: Whose interests does British foreign policy serve? Is the national interest a useful explanatory tool for foreign policy analysts? How can policymakers reconnect with this idea to devise better strategies to cope with the complex policy environment of the twenty-first century? Drawing on links between academics, policymakers and other stakeholders, it provides a practical discussion of theories on global change, globalization, ethics, and security to enliven debate about how to forge a foreign policy that advances the interests of the UK whilst also holding policy-makers and officials to account for their actions"--

The period since 2000 has presented unprecedented opportunities for the democratisation and international rehabilitation for Croatia and Serbia-Montenegro. In both countries the role of defence reform in these processes has been crucial. The new governments of each have faced three primary challenges in this area: establishing and consolidating civilian control over their formerly politicised armed forces; reforming bloated conflict-era force structures while rationalising defence budgets; and managing an emergent relationship with NATO and the West. This Adelphi Paper examines these processes. It asks how far defence reform challenges in these countries today can be equated to the experiences of the post-Communist region more widely or whether the influences of conflict and nationalist authoritarianism make Croatia and Serbia-Montenegro unique cases. In particular, it explores the manner and ways in which the international community has tried to encourage defence reform in both states and assess the effectiveness of strategies including defence assistance and political conditionality.