- volume: 2017
- number: 3
- type: Přehledový / Peer-reviewed
The article focuses on confronting the Lebanon‘s Shiite movement Hezbollah with Israel in the field of energy. The aim of the article is to analyse the importance of energy in strategy of movement Hezbollah generally and specifically in confronting with Israel and motives and methods of the energy strategy of the Hezbollah. The primary method of Hezbollah action is to use or threat of violence consisting in threatening to attack on the Israeli energy sector to defend Lebanese energy wealth and deter its enemy from production of gas and oil in the disputed waters of the eastern Mediterranean. The main motive of Hezbollah‘s activities is especially strengthening of stable energy supplies and Israel‘s accusations of aggressive energy policy towards Lebanon.
Read more: Energy as a Strategic Tool of Hezbollah Movement in Confrontation with Israel
- volume: 2024
- number: 1
- status: Recenzované / Reviewed
- type: Přehledový / Peer-reviewed
Biosecurity and biodefence (i.e. all countermeasures preventing the spread of a biological agent in the environment and population) are on the routine agenda of states and their militaries. Somewhat on the sidelines are the Global Catastrophic Biological Risks (GCBRs), which can destroy the human community as a biological species. Although a precise definition of what constitutes a Global Catastrophic Biological Risk is still being sought, it can be said to be the impact of potential Global Catastrophic Risks (GCRs) on the social, economic, and biological fabric of human existence. It follows that GCBRs are a subset of GCRs. It is also open to debate whether, in the case of GCBRs, the risk must necessarily be biological agents, from viruses to humans, or whether anthropogenic threats can also be accepted as risk agents, or what the impact must be for the risk to be included under the GCBR label.
Read more: Are There Real Global Catastrophic Biological Risks?
- volume: 2016
- number: 2
- type: Přehledový / Peer-reviewed
There is currently about 1 500 Moroccan citizens fighting for the so-called Daech in Syria and Iraq; that makes the North African monarchy one of the main countries which export radical islam djihadists and supporters abroad to the war-beaten Syrian-Iraqi region. Until 2014 Moroccan officials let them leave the country almost freely, to be precise, they didn´t prevent them from travelling to Syria, Iraq and other proxy war destinations. That´s how have the Moroccan fighters joined the Daech rows fighting in the beginning against the Syrian president Asad. But it seems now that the situation has rapidly changed: the Kingdom of Morocco is currently fighting and closely monitoring its own foreign fighters who are coming back home. Especially such eventual threat is pushing the country for creating a new national security strategy related to this risky minority, which needs to be integrated back to the Moroccan society.
Read more: Morocco´s Foreign Fighters: Jihadists´ 2nd Generation and its Islamist Ideology
- volume: 2017
- number: 2
- type: Přehledový / Peer-reviewed
The issue of terrorism is becoming increasingly important on the level of social, economic, political and security. The threat of terrorism affects at the same time, societal and cultural events. Professional and academic discussion addresses the causes and possible consequences of this phenomenon. To understand the implications of terrorism, it is necessary to look at this issue from the perspective of terms of its financing. This review study aims to define the term financing of terrorism on the one hand, but also to identify possible sources of financing of terrorism, including the most used payment methods by terrorist organizations. This study also leads a discussion on the efforts and effectiveness of the various authorities in the fight for detecting terrorism, especially in relation to the detection of its financial flows. The study also defines the possible pitfalls in the fight against terrorism and detecting its sources of financing and attempts to outline possible alternatives while increasing success in this fight.
- volume: 2017
- number: 2
- type: Přehledový / Peer-reviewed