Podle dostupných informací je Irán velmi blízko vyvinutí funkční jaderné bomby. Iránští představitelé několikrát zopakovali, že „Izrael by měl být vymazán z mapy.“ Duchovní vůdce Khameini ve svém březnovém veřejném vystoupení nabídl pomoc jakémukoliv státu, který „porazí ten rakovinotvorný tumor.“

Space has become an increasingly important domain within regional security cooperation initiatives. While the Nordic countries have embraced the prospect of a joint satellite system as an important tool in advancing common interests, the Visegrad nations have yet to recognize the immense potential of collaboration in outer space.

Industrial civilisation's entire economy is based on a finite resource we treat as infinite. Oil touches nearly every single aspect of the lives of those in the industrialised world. Most of our food, clothing, electronics, hygiene products and transportation simply would not exist without this resource.

In the times of austerity, such as the one we now face, the government always has to create a list of priorities. It needs to decide what to financially support and where to cut. Today, defense budgets are usually top rankers in such charts. Something, that only a few centuries ago when war used to be a legitimate instrument of state´s foreign policy, would be hard to imagine. But the times have changed, the western countries now possess – or the believe so – more effective ways to promote their raison d´etat.

Bratislava sa stane 12.-14. apríla 2012 dejiskom konferencie politických a diplomatických špičiek zo štyroch kontinentov. Slovenská atlantická komisia organizuje po siedmykrát Globálne bezpečnostné fórum GLOBSEC 2012.

The Munich Security Conference took place last week. International security leaders met at Munich’s Bayerische Hof hotel in order to discuss current and forthcoming international security issues. The conference organised a series of panels that fostered debate and fruitful discussion among senior experts around the world. The discussions were as follows:

In this paper I would like to contemplate about present geopolitical status of Turkey and its potential of becoming a very important player on energy market and one of the most important transit countries for Europe.