Security Studies
Marshall Center PTSS Alumnus publishes new book!
Yuri Gramajo, a GCMC graduate of PTSS 2009-7,just published his sixth book, entitled "Debate Internacional". Published in Argentina, this book addressesmultiple international scenarioswith significant global impact. The book was co-authored by academics from Argentina, Chile, Spain...
Marshall Center Seminar Digs into a ‘Frozen Conflict’ to Uncover Tools for Peace
By Christine June GCMC Public Affairs GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN, Germany (April 28, 2017) – Dr. Natalia Albu, associate professor at the Military Academy of the Republic of Moldova, was still in high school in 1992 when war broke out in her country, and more than 25 years later, it remains a...
Marshall Center Transnational Weekly - 30 July 2014
Dear Readers:The latest edition of the Transnational Info Alert can be found at this link:https://members.marshallcenter.org/news-story/marshall-center-updateThis is a new way to access the Transnational Info Alert, which was previously the PTSS Daily. The link goes to GlobalNET, which is the...
Marshall Center, GLOBSEC Begin Partnership
Bratislava, Slovakia (June 18) - The George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies organized a panel discussion with invited officials and experts on "Defending Europe's Flank" during the annual GLOBSEC conference 18 May in Bratislava. Dr. Andrew Michta (Dean of the Marshall...
Marshall Center, Munich Security Conference Aim to Strengthen Transatlantic Partnership
By Christine June Public Affairs Office George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies MUNICH, Germany (Feb. 19, 2019) – The George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies’ and Munich Security Conference Foundation’s Loisach Group hosted its second annual side event...
Marshall Center’s Central Asia Program Hosts Border Security, Management Workshop in Tajikistan
DUSHANBE, Tajikistan (March 16, 2018) – The Marshall Center’s Central Asia Non-Resident Program, Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) Dushanbe’s Border Management Staff College, and the U.S. Embassy Dushanbe, conducted a workshop on Border Security and Management here...
Marshall Center’s Central Asia Team Hosts Regional Energy Security Conference in Kazakhstan
By Central Asia Program George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies ALMATY, Kazakhstan (April 12, 2018) – The George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies’ Central Asia Team, in cooperation with the U.S. and German embassies in Astana, Dushanbe, Ashgabat and...
Marshall Center’s Combating Transnational Crime Course ‘Brings Strategies to Life’
By Christine June GCMC Public Affairs GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN, Germany (Dec. 15, 2016) – Packing tools to bring strategies to life, 90 practitioners are heading home to 52 countries after graduating from the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies’ Program on Countering...
Marshall Center’s Counterterrorism Course Teaches Global Professionals to Fight Terrorists at Home
By Christine June Public Affairs Office George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN, Germany (March 15, 2019) - The George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies’ Program on Terrorism and Security Studies has gathered 63 counterterrorism...
Marshall Center’s Faculty Roundtable Addresses Today’s Security Trends, Threats
By Christine June Public Affairs Office George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN, Germany – The Faculty Roundtable is one of the ways that the College of International and Security Studies at the George C. Marshall European Center here is able to...
Marshall Center’s Seminar Encourages First Line of Defense in the Fight Against Corruption
By Christine June GCMC Public Affairs KYIV, Ukraine (April 17, 2017)—Nane Harutyunyan, a lawyer with the Ministry of Justice in Armenia, wrote notes, asked questions and researched in the evenings because she knew the “Black Sea-Eurasia Region Countering Corruption Seminar” she was...
Marshall Center’s Seminar Screens Countermeasures to Fight Security Challenges in Europe
By Emma Bareihs Public Affairs Office George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN, Germany – The George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies hosted the European Security Seminar – East 19-13 here June 10 to 14. This year’s ESS-East...
Marshall Center’s Senior Executive Seminar Aims to Understand Chinese Engagement in Europe
By Emma Bareihs Public Affairs Office George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN, Germany – The George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies hosted the annual Senior Executive Seminar, titled “China in Europe: A Security Challenge?,” here...
Marshall Center’s Transatlantic Talk Podcast: Episode 6
Listen to the Marshall Center's new Transatlantic Talk podcast! Click on the episode below to listen. The aim of the Marshall Center’sTransatlantic Talkaudio podcast is to offer a genuine dialogue on current issues in transatlantic relations and their broader political and societal context...
Meeting of the PfP Consortium’s Regional Stability in South East Europe Study Group
Reichenau and der Rax, Austria, May 6, 2022 - Regional Stability South East Europe Study Group is currently coming together to discuss "The Key Role of the Young for the Consolidation of South East Europe". On invitation of the Austrian Ministry of Defense, their National Defence Academy, the...
Meeting of the PfP Consortium’s Regional Stability in the South Caucasus Study Group
Rome, Italy, September 13, 2021 -Since the end of the most recent Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict on 9 November 2020, new and often competing diplomatic and governmental efforts have emerged and have begun to re-shape relationships between the regional players and the global powers who seek to...
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Migration and Human Smuggling Focus at Athens Seminar
By James Brooks, Marshall Center Public Affairs Director Garmisch-Partenkirchen, GERMANY (June 21, 2017) – Nearly two dozen senior security professionals from seven European nations gathered in Athens, Greece, for a two-day conference examining migration and human smuggling, June 14-15,...
Military and Private Sector HADR – Now a Sophisticated Tool for Strategic Competition
“Military and Private Sector HADR – Now a Sophisticated Tool for Strategic Competition,” is the title of a paper by Drs. Deon Canyon and Benjamin Ryan, forSecurity Nexus. This paper illustrates how humanitarian assistance and disaster relief (HADR) has emerged as a sophisticated diplomatic...
Minister of National Security of Trinidad & Tobago Visits the Perry Center
On April 5, 2016, the Honourable Edmund E. Dillon (Major General, Ret.), Minister of National Security of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, visited the Perry Center to discuss preparations for the upcoming Conference of Defense Ministers of the Americas (XII CDMA). Minister Dillon was...
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The Rising Wind: Is the Caucasus Emerging as a Hub for Terrorism, Smuggling and Trafficking
This chapter focuses on the routes of weapon, drug and human trafficking in the Caucasus. It reviews the regional security environment and provides an overview of the major violent non-state actors such as terrorist groups, insurgency movements and organized crime syndicates operating across the...
Trafficking Routes and Links to Terrorism in South Eastern Europe: The Case of Romania
This chapter argues that Southeastern Europe is a major transit route for the terrorists as well as organized criminals, including human and drug traffickers. The paper specifically discusses the link between organized crime and terrorist activities in the context of Romania. The author argues that...
Terror Crime Nexus? Terrorism and Arms, Drugs, Human Trafficking in Georgia
This chapter examines the presence of a terror-crime nexus in Georgia. It focuses on potential points of intersection between terrorism and arms, drug and human trafficking. After outlining the threat that transnational terrorism and international organized crime pose to Georgia, the author...
Terrorist Routes in Central Asia: Trafficking Drugs; Humans, and Weapons
This chapter argues that the weaknesses associated with Central Asian states tend to keep states in the region relatively exposed to penetration by external forces. According to the author, these forms of weaknesses allow sub-state actors to play a greater role in the determination of regional...
Smuggling in South Eastern Europe
This chapter discusses the implications of human, drug and weapons smuggling in Southeastern Europe for the regional as well as European security. The author argues that the routes used to traffic people, drugs and weapons can readily provide a suitable logistical infrastructure to terrorist groups...
Terrorist Routes in South Eastern Europe
This chapter analyzes the relationship between terrorism and organized crime in Southeastern Europe. The author argues that transnational organized crime is a complex phenomenon in this region, one lnked with warlordism and terrorism. According to her, politics, crime and corruption have merged to...
Summary of Conclusions: Combating Terrorism Working Groupe (CTWG)
This chapter offers a summary of the conclusions presented in all articles of the PfP Quarterly Journal Spring 2007 issue. The authors identify three main conclusions: terrorists are using the same routes as arms, drugs, and human traffickers; terrorists are using arms and drug trafficking to...
A Comprehensive Approach to Modern Conflict: Afghanistan and Beyond
This chapter comprises the report from the March 2007 conference entitled "A Comprehensive Approach to Modern Conflict: Afghanistan and Beyond." The discussions are centered along three main themes: ISAF operations in Southern Afghanistan, the challenges and opportunities for whole of government...
A3D Approach to Security and Development
This chapter addresses the need for comprehensive approaches in conflict and post-conflict situations. The author argues that in policymaking and policy implementation there is a trend towards increased synergy between defense, diplomacy and development, the so-called 3D approach. The paper...
Hungary´s Whole-of-Government Approach to Crisis Management and Post-Conflict Stabilization
This chapter presents a short overview of Hungary's diverse roles and activities in a wide range of international missions, focusing on the Hungarian-led Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) in Afghanistan. The author points out why a comprehensive approach to stabilization efforts is necessary in...
A Comprehensive Approach to Modern Conflict: Afghanistan and Beyond
This chapter comprises the speech given by Ambassador Martin Erdmann - NATO's Assistant Secretary General for Political Affairs and Security Policy at a March 2007 conference on the "Comprehensive Approach to Modern Conflict." The speech focuses on NATO's approach to security during the Cold War...
The Comprehensive Approach: NATO Responses from an Operational Standpoint - Case of Afghanistan
This chapter focuses on the role of NATO in Afghanistan. The author argues that NATO recognizes that its politico-military engagement in Afghanistan should be guided by a comprehensive approach that brings together NATO's military involvement in theatre with the alliance's wider diplomatic efforts...