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The article briefly presents the evolutions in time of the cooperation of the NATO member countries over the complex issue of constituting common defence capabilities with a bigger accent on the late years (2010-2012) following the difficulties appeared after the effects of the world economic crisis.
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The Smart Defence concept was introduced in the NATO policy in a time when the Alliance is confronted with new challenges generated by the global economic crisis, a lack of balance in the participation of the member states in the financing of common operations, threats coming from states that do not adhere to nuclear non-proliferation treaties, as well as the emergence of new state actor at global level.
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The XXIst century beginning brought severe transformations on the background of strategic changes initiated by the major actors involved in the energetic resources competition, after a financial crisis that led to austerity budgets planning.
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The effectiveness of cooperation is an objective and necessary feature of all actions, processes, and phenomena circumscribed to cooperation process, channeled towards satisfying all needs, aspirations, requirements etc. The effectiveness of cooperation is the degree of achievement of the targets set for cooperative work and the relationship between the projected and actual result of that activity.
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The present study approaches the notion of security that is considered the main condition for the existence and development of a nation (statal entity) in a state of peace, seen in direct relationship with the state-nation imbalance - a defining coordinate of the rule of law modernity, the main cause of disputes and the element of continuity of peace, crisis and war.
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The national security is determined by an ensemble of external and internal factors. As external determinations, the present paper analyzes: regional integration; international terrorism; the present financial-economic crisis; trans-border crime; frozen conflicts; international migration. These determinations of national security effects are cumulative and interdependent.
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This paper presents briefly the wars of the informational era. Terrorist and unconventional (especially asymmetric) confrontations have not demarcation lines and tend to amplify. Armed defence is the basic component of state's security, but is not the most important part of its components.
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In the last two decades, we have witnessed an increase in the attention given to the new types of threats and risks to national security, from environmental issues to terrorism and economic instability. Traditional definitions of national and international security are based on a limited understanding of the conflict and have proven inadequate to describe the entire set of risk which the international community is currently facing.
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The general sense, security is perceived to be that state existential and relational characterized by safety, given the lack of a state dangers, but also the effectiveness of factors involved in deterring and combat them. Basically, security is linked to individual and organizational forms of the social and political history of his life. As such, the literature devoted expressions of individual security, community security (community, village, commune, town etc.), State security, regional security, international security and continental security. But consider security as such does not exist.There is the security of life, economic security, cultural security, security policy, military security etc. In these expressions security, national security covers the geographical area in which the state is considered the center of power leading role in managing specific forms of security, both internally and in relations with other state entities. Consequently, the security environment is given by all the state legislative regulations, moral, ethical, military, etc.. that make up the existential and event-driven individuals internally and externally, as a result of state commitments.
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The world faces more serious problems such as terrorism, poverty, intolerance, conflicts inthe Middle East and North Africa, WMD proliferation, destruction of some states’ governing systems,etc. Egypt, Libia, Yemen and Tunisia are in complete chaos and the Arab world boils; there werevoices who asking the question: which is the globalization impact over security as a whole andnational security as peculiar?
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Starting from the present economic crisis, this thesis underlines some ways to apply the „smart security” concept: armaments, training, operational level, and logistical support. There are mentioned the benefits of this concept under the conditions of limited defence budgets, the Romanian one included.
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The beginning of XXI century projected in the geopolitical and geostrategic reality of the planet, the European Union as a global actor. In fact, the geopolitical scale of the world occurs as European Union consecration as an indispensable actor of any equation that contains not only the known but also the unknown reconfigure an international order, a new international climate who’s common denominator consists decisive attributes of organic and operational security.
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This article presents some aspects of the present informational society, trends of development in the civilian and military fields, direct effects on the military phenomenon and the potential manners of action of NATO and member states in the implementation of the new "Smart Defence" Concept launched at the Chicago NATO Summit, on May 20-21, 2012, inclusively in the complex fie;d of C4ISR systems.
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Currently, the international security environment faces many fundamental changes, under the impact of economic and financial global crisis.
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In 20-21st of May at Chicago took place the NATO Summit, having as participants chiefs of state or chiefs of government from more than 50 countries.
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Military or civil-military actions, no matter how important or urgent, don't have anymore the rigor and the dimension of the classical ones.
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The international community is more active and responsible in managing the crisis and armed conflicts worldwide.
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The beginning of the 21st century coincides with the start of a new era in international politics, the central role being played by economy and security. The current international security environment is marked by profound transformations in the main field of social existence.
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Globalization has determined major changes in crisis management. We could notice that military confrontation pattern between two armies, in a well determined geographical area and with same features.
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Being a reliable support of acknowledging security needs and underlying state's policies and strategies, the intelligence informationally supports the adoption of the strategic decisions necessary for the prevention, reduction or removal of the threats.
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