Defence policy

Defence policy

Defence policy: scope, components, levels of ambition

Scenario and ambitions for managing a trans-border political-military crisis: Implications for Bulgaria’s Defence Policy

Rapid Reaction Capability of the European Union: Taking that Last Big Step

McCray, Matthew. "Rapid Reaction Capability of the European Union: Taking that Last Big Step." Connections: The Quarterly Journal 13, no. 4 (2014): 1-24.

The formation of an Army of Europe has been discussed almost since the end of World War II, but has yet to be realized. After reading through the numerous and varied proposals over the past sixty years, the observer invariably arrives at the conclusion that all concerned parties agree: the European Union (EU) should have its own military. The Union today, taken as a whole, is an economic and cultural superpower.

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Managing Change in Complex Organizations. The Challenges of Transformation

The lecture informs on the main approaches, principles, and phases of change management, the implementation of respective plans under the impact of social and cultural factors. It discusses the waves of thinking on change in defence after the Cold war, with focus on defence transformation, smart defence, and the concept of Intelligent Complex Adaptive Systems.

Defence Policy and Management

This lecture presents the scope and the content of a defence policy, the main variables and their interrelations. The national defence policy is devised in the context of allied defence policies, the national security policy, other public policies and the respective allocation of public resources. The terms “management” and “security strategy” are also examined briefly in their relation to the formulation of defence policies. At this point the lecture notes are available in Bulgarian only. Some key references are freely available online, in English.

Scenarios for Resource Allocation to Bulgaria’s Defense in the Horizon of 2035

NATO’s Partnership for Peace: Twenty Years Later (in Bulgarian)

Ratchev, Valeri. NATO’s Partnership for Peace: Twenty Years Later (in Bulgarian) In CSDM Views. Sofia: Centre for Security and Defence Management, 2014.
На 11 януари 1994 г. държавните глави на страните от НАТО одобряват предложената от САЩ инициатива Партньорство за мир, а на 14 февруари същата година президентът Желю Желев подписва Рамковия документ на Партньорство за мир.
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Expanded Capability Portfolios to Steer Force Development under Strategic Uncertainty

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