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The trans-Atlantic alliance must confront a number of fundamental strategic questions about its future. Unpredictability becomes the very essence of security. Political transitions in MENA, cyber security threats and America's increasing focus on Asia, these are collective prooves that NATO has entered a new age. This Paper addresses future threats to NATO, challenges confronting the alliance in addressing them, and a path for moving forward. Conclusion is that the allies must acknowledge that their long-term security will be in jeopardy unless they make difficult decissions about priorities settled at the Chicago Summit. Smart Defense is a new constructive mind-set that could nevertheless become a vulnerable initiative, since the allies will be under considerable pressure to demonstrate concrete deliverables in this area. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper aims to discuss if there is any similarity between two distant events like the end of the Napoleonic era and the creation of a new Concert of Power, in 1815, and the fall of the Berlin Wall, in November 1989. Even if at first sight, no direct connection can be found, the fact that both can be analysed as performing important functions in the creation of a new European security order and a new architecture of power allows us to pursue this comparative analysis. From the international relations theory point of view, one can say that both followed hegemonic wars which resulted in the redrawing of European political map and in the creation of a new continental order. The complexity of the long series of events which were triggered off by these important landmarks requires, nevertheless, a deeper analysis of the implications and consequences of both episodes in European history. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study aims at presenting an analysis of the National Security Strategy of Romania from the perspective of potential ways of implementing it (tasks, sub-systems and actors). An overview of the current security environment in Central and Eastern Europe is equally presented as well as the role of NATO in the European security. Conclusions on the implementation ways of the National Security Strategy of Romania and recommendations for a scientific approach in re-thinking the strategy are rendered in the last part. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]