Threats to Peace and International Security: Asia Versus West: Current Challenges in a New Geopolitical Situation (Paperback, 2023)

PREFACE.- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS AND INTRODUCTION.- Part 1 - European perspective.- Chapter 1. Sovereignty and Defence in the future of the European Union.- Chapter 2. The hegemonic rivalry between the PRC and US: EU's place.- Chapter 3. The Russia-Ukraine conflict from an international law perspective.- Chapter 4. The Russian commitment to Eurasianism: A crazy idea for European Security and Defence?.- Chapter 5. Eurasia vs. West: history, causes, and issues related to de Ukrainian war.- Chapter 6. Security of the Eastern Borders of the EU in the context of the Functions of the European Border and Coast Guard Agency. Selected elements.- Part 2 - Far East Challenges.- Chapter 7. Chinese expansionism without borders. Threat to international security.- Chapter 8. Chinese influence in the southern cone: Bolivia, Chile and Argentina.- Chapter 9. The role of the Philippines in the South China Sea.- Chapter 10. Artificial Islands in the South China Sea. Territorial Disputes in the Area. United Nations Conference of the Law of the Sea proposals.- Chapter 11. The arbitral decision regarding historic rights and the lawfulness of certain actions of China in the South China Sea under Annex VII to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.- Part 3 - Global Risks.- Chapter 12. The risk of misuse of nuclear technology in the context of geopolitical conflict between the west and the east.- Chapter 13. Returned foreign terrorist fighters: different responses to a common security threat to Asia and the West?.- Chapter 14. Cyber intelligence over Cyber security in the Asia-West conflict.- Chapter 15. Jihad in Europe: Towards a predictive model for the neutralization of terrorist threats.- Chapter 16. Developments oblige the new Iranian Government to give a higher priority to its neighbouring countries.- Chapter 17. Analysis of Crisis management systems in the contexts of the Global Economic Crisis and Military-Political Changes.- EPILOGUE.