WORLD INSECURITY

About the Book

The world is increasingly becoming interdependent and this interdependency has raised the number of unmistakable vulnerabilities, threats and risks. The institutions of governance in weak and failing states are driving forces that often lead to environmental damage, mismanagement of natural resources, to the expansion of international terrorism, inter-religious violence, transnational organized crime, and to piracy activities that affect energy security in the Gulf of Guinea and Aden. All this creates open security spaces whose impacts are national, sub-regional, regional, and threatens the international security order. The UN and other intergovernmental bodies are often drawn in to mitigate conflicts and political crisis, and to provide emergency humanitarian responses, at very high costs. The cost of post-conflict society’s recovery processes such as rebuilding institutions of governance is enormous due to financial and human resources commitment efforts. Therefore to resolve insecurity problems, a firefighter strategy is not good enough unless efforts are redirected towards information, management and analysis of global trends to enable a more adequate response to the crisis. The main issue is therefore to provide now and for future generations a response that has to be effective and adequate to both manmade and natural crisis.

About the Author

Philippe A. W. Franzkowiak: holds a master’s degree in Defence, Geostrategy and Industrial Dynamics from the Paris II University, France and a Diplôme d’études supérieures de Défense, from the Collège Interarmées de Défense, Paris (France). He currently works and lives in Rome. Miguel C. Vilombo: holds two advanced degrees: a master’s degree in Intelligence and Security Studies (Link Campus University of Malta), a master’s degree in Peace Studies: International Cooperation, Human Rights and European Policy -University of Rome Tre, (Italy), as well as a Bachelor’s Degree in Security and Risk Management -University of Leicester, (UK); and a Certificate in Terrorism University of St Andrews, UK). He is the author of “Power in the Back Seats of Strategic Decision Making Process 2012”. He works and lives in Rome. Aimad El Ouardani: holds two master’s degrees: one in political science and the other in global security studies, both from the Montesquieu University– Bordeaux 4 (France), as well as a Bachelor’s degree in English and Spanish languages from the Montaigne University– Bordeaux 3 (France). He is starting a career as a global security analyst.