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The interdependencies between the economy and security have become indissoluble, while the ability to decipher the security environment is a fundamental prerequisite for anticipating regional or global economic trends. Security is an increasingly complex, sophisticated and dynamic concept that has undergone a real metamorphosis in the last decade. Assymetric and hybrid challenges have taken the place of conventional threats, making the new means of waging a war increasingly difficult to anticipate and counter. Information warfare, economic warfare, cyber warfare or hybrid aggression can cause as much damage as a full-scale war, but without a single bullet being fired. The technological revolution, the acceleration of digitization and the automation of systems have created opportunities and risks alike. The pandemic was a catalyst that accelerated many evolutionary processes, generating vulnerabilities on the other hand. Globalization, in addition to the multiple benefits, has led to an internationalization of crises, so that by relativizing geography, distant crises generate effects as if they were unfolding on our doorstep. All these phenomena must be fully understood in order to be able to anticipate and respond accordingly.
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Narciz Bălăşoiu
currently holds a lecturer position in the department of International Economic Relations of the Academy of Economic Studies. He is also the Director of the Center for Conflict Prevention and Early Warning, a think tank active in the areas of security, defence and foreign policy. He holds two PhDs, in national security and intelligence from the National Defense University, and in economics and international affairs from ASE. Narciz Bălășoiu held several positions in the public administration, such as advisor to the Minister of Defense and advisor to the Minister of Foreign Affairs. His last book is entitled “Prospective Studies in the Wider Black Sea Region”, and was published by the Institute of International Relations of the Romanian Academy.
Greg Simons
has a PhD from the University of Canterbury in New Zealand, and is currently a researcher at the Institute for Russian and Eurasian Studies (IRES) at Uppsala University in Sweden. His research interests include: changing political dynamics and relationships, mass media, public diplomacy, political marketing, crisis management communications, media and armed conflict. He also researches the relationships and connections between information, politics and armed conflict more broadly, such as the GWOT and Arab Spring.
