May | 2011 | INTERSECURITYFORUM

NATO & The Stress of Security Conceptions

By Archive on May 24, 2011 in Africa, Middle East & North Africa: MENA, Regional Security

Six months have elapsed since the tabling of NATO’s new Strategic Concept, and already we see, with the Arab Spring, the limits of the Alliance’s extra-territorial crisis-management capacity. By this I don’t mean the relative inability of the “Unified Protector” mission to decide the fate of Libya. In fact, NATO’s…

Libya Resolution 1973: Responsibility to Protect

By Archive on May 04, 2011 in Middle East & North Africa: MENA, Regional Security

After the collapse of the bipolar Cold-War stalemate that had constrained and antagonised international relations for half a century, the main concern has been putting the world together again. Both the US Security Concept and the EU 1993 Security Strategy indicated “failed States” as the main threat to peace and…

Archive for May 2011