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ROMANIA NATIONAL DEFENCE UNIVERSITY “CAROL I” CENTRE FOR DEFENCE AND SECURITY STRATEGIC STUDIES No. 2 [39]/2011 68-72 Panduri Street, sector 5, Bucharest, Romania Telephone: (021) 319.56.49; Fax: (021) 319.55.93 E-mail: [email protected]; Web address: http://impactstrategic.unap.ro, http://cssas.unap.ro NATIONAL DEFENCE UNIVERSITY “CAROL I” PRINTING HOUSE BUCHAREST, ROMANIA The Centre for Defence and Security Strategic Studies’ scientific quarterly magazine is acknowledged by the National Council for Scientific Research in Higher Education as a B+ magazine Editorial Board: Teodor Frunzeti, Professor, Ph.D., chairman Marius Hanganu, Professor, Ph.D. Constantin Moştoflei, Senior Researcher, Ph.D. Hervé Coutau-Bégarie, director, Ph.D. (Institute for Compared Strategy, Paris, France) John L. Clarke, Professor, Ph.D. (European Centre for Security Studies “George C. Marshall”) Adrian Gheorghe, Professor Eng., Ph.D. (Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia, USA) Libor Frank, Ph.D. (Institute for Strategic Studies, Defence University, Brno, Czech Republic) Dario Matika, Ph.D. (Institute for Research and Development of Defence Systems, Zagreb, Croatia) Ilias Iliopoulos, Professor, Ph.D. (Baltic Defence College, Tartu, Estonia) Eng. Pavel Necas, Ph.D. (Armed Forces Academy, Liptovsky Mikulas, Slovacia) Scientific Board: Mihai Velea, Professor, Ph.D. Petre Duţu, Senior Researcher, Ph.D. Alexandra Sarcinschi, Senior Researcher, Ph.D. Cristian Băhnăreanu, Senior Researcher, Ph.D. Nicolae Dolghin, Ph.D. Grigore Alexandrescu, Ph.D. Richard Stojar, Ph.D. Andryi Volosyn Editors: Constantin Moştoflei, Senior Researcher, Ph.D., editor-in-chief Cristina Bogzeanu, Research Assistant, deputy editor-in-chief Daniela Răpan George Răduică, Ph.D. The authors are responsible for their articles’ content, respecting the provisions of the Law no. 206 from the 27th of May, 2004, regarding the conduct in scientific research. ISSN 1842-9904 (online edition) STRATEGIC IMPACT CONTENTS Globalisation or regionalisation? Teodor FRUNZETI, PhD.......................................................................................................5 Security complex and regional concepts. The Wider Black Sea Region. Institutional integration and administrative capacity as solutions of regional security Iulian CHIFU, PhD...............................................................................................................14 Regional cross-border cooperation in the area of information systems Constantin MINCU, PhD.....................................................................................................23 Regional cooperation models. Case study – Kosovo Tiberiu TĂNASE, PhD, Oana-Maria ŞTEFAN....................................................................29 The impact of cross-border regional cooperation on national and European security Petre DUŢU, PhD, Ioana Valeria ALEXE............................................................................40 Romania’s cooperation with the countries in the Wider Black Sea Region. Romania-Bulgaria relation in the context of regional cooperation Eleonora-Alice STOIAN......................................................................................................48 Reviews of the national and international cooperation in combating and preventing cross- border crime Valentin GIUPANĂ..............................................................................................................55 Bilateral cooperation between Romania and Hungary in case of accidental pollution. Two study cases Francisc TOBĂ, PhD............................................................................................................60 Cooperation in the areas of energy, environment and national security Florin JIANU, Irina TĂTARU.............................................................................................67 The European Union – from regional cooperation to unitary actor in International Relations Dorel BUŞE, PhD.................................................................................................................71 The EU role in crisis management in the Southern and Eastern Neighbourhood – motivations and limits Agnes NICOLESCU.............................................................................................................76 Prospects of the Western Balkans development in terms of security and economic cooperation Cristina GĂLUŞCĂ..............................................................................................................80 POINTS OF VIEW Technological gap. Forms and influences on economical development. Implications for the contemporary military phenomenon Virgil BĂLĂCEANU, PhD..................................................................................................93 Libya and NATO’s operations: The Return from voluntarism to the classical rules of international law Iulian CHIFU, PhD.............................................................................................................101 Barack H. Obama’s view on global security: a shift in the US foreign and security policy? Pavel NEČAS, PhD, Blažej LIPPAY, Stanislav SZABO, PhD..........................................113 STRATEGIC IMPACT No. 2/2011 STRATEGIC IMPACT NATO’s energy security: Post-Lisbon Challenges Gabriela TRANCIUC, Costinel ANUŢA............................................................................119 CDSSS’ AGENDA The activities of the Centre for Defence and Security Strategic Studies, April - June 2011 Irina TĂTARU....................................................................................................................127 Instructions for authors.........................................................................................................128 STRATEGIC IMPACT No. 2/2011 CROSS-BORDER REGIONAL COOPERATION GLOBALISATION OR REGIONALISATION? Teodor FRUNZETI, PhD* Globalisation and regionalisation represent of H1N1 pandemic during the war in Libya and two of the key-concepts marking the analysis on popular revolts in North Africa and the Middle the strategic and security environment as well as East from the beginning of 2011 and, last but not international relations evolution. Globalisation least, increased energy crisis – all these elements and regionalisation are current processes whose compete for a new order, a new rearrangement of complexity gave birth to multiple controversies the international system. and dilemmas, being seen by specialists in the Schools, currents and opinions clearly field as either contrary or compatible. This article outlined by some analysts, diplomats and approaches theories on the two concepts as well politicians continue to be on one part or another as the relation between them. of the characteristics prevalent in the strategic The analysis of the implications that the most and security environment and in the international recent world events have on the evolution of relations development: the globalisation and regionalisation processes - cooperation and competition; represents the key point of this article. - unipolarity and multipolarity; Key-words: globalisation; regionalisation; - unilaterality and multilaterality; paradigms; perspectives; economic and financial - centralisation and decentralisation; crisis; security; economy. - integration and disintegration, division; - unification and fragmentation; In the past decade, increasingly dynamic - military and non-military; and complex events, phenomena and changes - state and non-state; accelerated the process of redesigning the world. - uniformisation and differentiation; The terrorist attacks on the U.S. on September - protectionism and liberalisation; 11, 2001 and those in Madrid (2004) and - dependence, interdependence and independ- London (2005), the Iraq war in 2003, the Russo- ence. Georgian war in the summer of 2008, NATO All these tendencies, at first glance and EU enlargement to the East, the EU reform antagonistic, are in one form or another subsumed by adopting the Lisbon treaty in December 2009 to major trends manifesting in the international and that of NATO by adopting the New Strategic environment: globalisation and regionalisation. Concept in November 2010, the rise of China, The two processes give birth to a series of global warming, nuclear threat, the emergence controversies and dilemmas. On the one hand, * Lieutenant-general university professor PhD. Teodor FRUNZETI ([email protected]) is the commandant and rector of “Carol I” National Defence University. A scholar with a PhD in military sciences and a PhD in political sciences, he authored and co-authored a series of military, security and defence books and over 100 specialised articles and scientific communications. STRATEGIC IMPACT No. 2/2011 CROSS-BORDER REGIONAL COOPERATION many argue that there are two contrary processes, attitudes similar towards third parties, common regionalism being seen as a lever used against political institutions, as an expression of political states that are not part of a group or another. On interdependence, a certain degree of economic the other hand, they are considered compatible, interdependence; common behaviour criteria, such economic and commercial regional blocs being as identifying the rules on conflict management and a limited form of globalisation and a means of resolution. Under these conditions, regionalisation establishing a multilateral global system. The refers mainly to increased connections and global economic and financial crisis, which interdependencies

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