Analiza operacij kriznega upravljanja EU

Evropska unija (EU) veliko pozornosti namenja varnostni razsežnosti svojega delovanja, kar lahko razberemo iz razvoja njenih varnostnih zmogljivosti, izvajanja večjega števila civilnih in vojaških operacij kriznega upravljanja, dejavnosti preprečevanja konfliktov, boja proti terorizmu, izvajanja ekonomskih sankcij in nudenja pomoči ob nesrečah, tako v EU kot zunaj nje. Avtorja se osredotočata na statistično analizo zaključenih in potekajočih vojaških in civilnih operacij kriznega upravljanja in ugotavljata, da te niso dovolj obsežne in ambiciozne, da bi lahko EU promovirale kot pomembnega in vplivnega političnega in varnostnega akterja v svetu. Podrobneje analizirata primera operacij EU, ki potekata v Bosni in Hercegovini (ALTHEA) in na Kosovu (EULEX) ter prepoznavata vzroke za velike razlike v stopnji njune uspešnosti.The European Union (EU) pays a lot of attention to the security dimension of its functioning. This can be seen in the development of its security capabilities, performance of several civilian and military crisis management operations, preventing of conflicts, fighting terrorism, imposing economic sanctions and providing disaster relief within and outside the EU. The authors focus on a statistical analysis of completed and ongoing military and civilian crisis management operations and establish that the latter are not comprehensive and ambitious enough to promote the EU as an important and influential political and security actor in the world. In addition, the authors analyse two specific EU operations taking place in Bosnia and Herzegovina (ALTHEA) and Kosovo (EULEX) and identify the causes of the enormous differences in the levels of their efficiency

Paradigma sodobne energetske varnosti

Nove, netradicionalne grožnje varnosti, ki so vse bolj kompleksne in indirektne, so posta - le velik izziv vsem nacionalnim varnostnim sistemom. Med njimi je tudi vprašanje ener - getske varnosti. Naraščajoča energetska poraba na eni strani, primanjkovanje resursov za proizvodnjo energije na drugi strani, vodijo v t.i. energetsko odvisnost. Oskrba z energijo je nuja za normalno gospodarsko proizvodnjo in rast, je pomembna za dobrobit narodov ter ima velik vpliv na mnoga druga področja nacionalne varnosti, kot so varnost preskrbe s hrano in pitno vodo, okoljska varnost in trajnostni razvoj.New nonconventional and asymmetric security threats posed a great challenge to all na - tional or collective security systems. Among them is question of energy security. Grow - ing energy consumption on one side and lacking resources for energy production leads more and more into energy dependence. Energy is vital for normal economic produc - tion and consequently well-being of nations and has enormous consequences on many other fields of national security like food security, environmental security and sustainable development

Vojaške družine na stičišču zahtev med družino in vojaško organizacijo

Vojaške družine oz. družine pripadnikov oboroženih sil predstavljajo posebno skupino, ki zaradi specifičnosti načina življenja, v katerem so se znašle, potrebujejo tudi posebno raziskovalno pozornost in institucionalno podporo. Članek predstavlja glavne značilnosti življenj vojaških družin ter vire stresa družinskih članov pripadnikov oboroženih sil. Družine teh pripadnikov so bile dolgo časa zapostavljene in šele v drugi polovici dvajsetega stoletja se je začel spreminjati odnos vojaške organizacije do teh družin. Raziskave so potrdile pomen in močan vpliv družinskega dejavnika na pripravljenost posameznega pripadnika oboroženih sil, pa tudi na pripravljenost enote, kateri pripada. Vpliv družine na pripadnikovo zadovoljstvo z vojaško službo, kot tudi na njegove načrte glede nadaljevanja vojaške kariere, je znano dejstvo. Članek opozarja tudi na probleme družin pripadnikov Slovenske vojske (SV), ki do nedavna niso bile deležne večje raziskovalne pozornosti in še vedno predstavljajo neznanko v odnosu med pripadnikom SV in samo SV. Sklepni del članka temelji na prvih empiričnih spoznanjih glede stališč in pričakovanj samih družin pripadnikov SV.Military families represent a special group which because of the specific characteristics of a military way of life they lead, needs also special research attention and also special institutional support. Article presents main characteristics in a life of military families and sources of stress for family members of the military staff. Military families have been ignored for a long time, and they have been given more institutional attention from the military organization since the second half of the twentieth century, when attitudes toward military families have begun changing. Several researches have confirmed the importance and strong influence of a family factor on readiness of a single soldier, as well as on his or hers unit\u27s readiness. Theinfluence of family on a soldier\u27s satisfaction with his or her job as wellas on his or her plans for retention, is a known fact. Article also pointsout some problems of families of members of the Slovene Armed Forces (SAF), who until recently have not been given greater research attention and still represent an unknown in the relation among a soldier and SAF. Last part of the article is based on first empirical findings on opinions and expectations of families of members of SAF