The Libyan conflict has become an issue at the global level since its beginning. The foreign aid and support help got by the revolutionaries in their attempt to overthrow the Qaddafi regime and the role of tribes not only during these events but also afterwards, the country’s strategic position and oil reserves are the main points of interest when considering the North African internationalized civil war. While the role played by the tribes in stabilizing the political and social framework still lays at crossroads, being extremely controversial, the economic value and strategic importance of oil, for domestic actors as well as the international ones, are above any doubt.
Changes in the security spectrum, in terms of reconfiguring its military content, subsequently involves another approach to security and defense research. Especially the economic aspects have a quantitative and qualitative impact on the management of the research specific to this field, which has long been taken for granted, causing changes in both the interests and the power of influence held by different categories of stakeholders. This article explores the main directions of change within the aforementioned framework, highlighting the major modalities of involving the civilian segment of capabilities and specialized assets, on a track considered for a long time and to a much greater extent compared to the present imperatives, as an area dedicated exclusively to the military. The thematic target approached by the team of authors includes both national and international plans, individualized or clustered, at the current level but also as trends, the main aim of the scientific approach is that of highlighting good practices in the field of research and development of dual-use products. The conclusion is that the possibilities of the civilian-military academic cooperation can be better grounded in order to achieve better results in terms of the operationalization of the security interest in a comprehensive manner, materialized mainly through research projects.
A misunderstanding or a disagreement, an incompatible situation or a competition between opponents that can generate into violence, conflict is a constant feature of human society. It can lead, depending on the context, to development or, on the contrary, to the dissolution of the organization or society. From the international relations’ point of view, a conflict is a dynamic process based on the clashing of interests of the international system’s participants. After the end of the Cold War, the change of conditions and determinations at the international level imprinted a specific evolution of the international conflict by transforming it in accordance with the conversion recorded by the global power architecture. In the same logic can be explained the reverse of the conditioning relationship, respectively of transforming the structure of the international system depending on the stake and the magnitude of the international conflict.
Estimating the degree of vulnerability of a region implies both the identification of the dependencies as well as of the interdependencies. The dependencies refer to a set of physical, social, economic, environmental and political-military conditions and processes and the interdependencies have in view physical, cyber, geographical and logical aspects that may indirectly affect the daily rhythm of the population, the economy or even the national security. The present paper aims at estimating the degree of vulnerability by constructing a model that would determine the index of vulnerability associated to a given area, an index that is directly dependent on demographic, economic, governmental factors, on the interdependence with other sectors and also on the history of the events that occurred in the area in the recent years.
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