The Long Term Perspective for Defence 2030 - Comparative Analysis

Procházka, Josef; Novotný, Antonín; Stojar, Richard; Frank, Libor

doi:10.24040/politickevedy.2018.21.4.118-139

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“…Prosperity, development, and sustainable growth of living standards have never been in the past so significantly dependent on the level of state and citizen security as it is nowadays in the currently economically interconnected and rapidly changing world in response to the deepening exchange and flow of information, capital, transactions, goods and services, intensive socio-cultural contacts, and legal and illegal immigration, the war against global terrorism (Bučka, Marek, Andrassy, 2018). The emergence of new, especially asymmetric, security threats and their proliferation following the fundamental changes in the worldwide security environment after the end of the Cold War, the fall of the Iron Curtain and the resultant decomposition of the world significantly shaped the view on ensuring defence and security (Bučka, Andrassy, 2017;Procházka, 2018;Majchút, 2018;Belan, Petrufová, 2021;Dubauskas, 2021;Jurčák, Marek, 2022).…”

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Security and defense are truly a priority for the member states of the European Union: fact of hoax?

Ivančík¹,

Nečas²

2023

JESI

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All the often-contradictory hoaxes concerning the European Union (EU) are so-called Euro-myths. They mostly have a negative tone and try to denigrate this institution. Their emergence is caused by the fact that individual states often need more information about what is happening in the EU, and the complex mechanism of the Union's functioning is difficult to understand. Therefore, when the next "EU wants to ban something" comes out, ordinary people tend to take it as a given without verifying the information, ensuring the defence of freedom, independence, sovereignty, territorial integrity, and population belongs to the main objective of each state. Thus, in response to the current political, security and economic situation, countries must earmark, within the framework of their national budgets, a proportion of the available resources to ensure their defence. The aim of this paper, based on current trends in the defence budgets of the EU member states, is to point out, that not only the global economic and financial crisis and the credit and debt crisis in the Euro-area have a significant negative impact on the amount of resources, which individual EU member states earmark to ensure their defence, but, in addition, all these aspects should be precisely understood, bearing in mind, the growing influence of disinformation spread, leveraged by the hoax rising influence.

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Security and defense are truly a priority for the member states of the European Union: fact of hoax?

Ivančík¹,

Nečas²

2023

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The Security Sector Reform of the Fragile State as a Tool for Conflict Prevention

Kompan¹,

Hrnčiar²

2021

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Disinformation as a Contemporary Key Security Challenge in the Context of the Russian-Ukrainian Conflict

Kollár¹

2022

politickevedy

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False information, as well as the actors who spread it, have the power to promote negative narratives about society and discredit the work of serious media, non-governmental organizations, etc. Concerns are growing around the world that international NGOs and civil society organizations are vulnerable to online attacks and disinformation campaigns. These attacks are aimed at instilling fear and confusion, stigmatizing civil society, disparaging targeted organizations and their leaders, or promoting inaccurate views. The deliberately misleading nature of false information can make it difficult to study and analyze this issue. After studying the available professional sources, we can state that most of the studies carried out so far focus on three aspects, namely (1) identification of forms of false information and false content, (2) causes and dynamics of their spread, especially on social networks, and (3) impact to public opinion. An objective of this article was to characterize and clarify all three aspects, while we have tried to apply them to a specific case in the second part of the paper, specifically Russian-Ukrainian war. The main cause, or the motive of the primary creators of disinformation is to cause chaos in society and undermine trust in the state, which is directly related to inciting hatred and distrust towards state institutions. Disinformation has become a hybrid tool as a form of attack on the interests of every democratic state and the security of its citizens. Foreign powers often try to spread their narratives through their own or friendly media, or fictitiously independent activists, while they often communicate differently internally within their own state. Based on our findings, coordination with three key players is crucial in the fight against disinformation: technology companies, civil society and fact-checkers and academic institutions. In addition, strategic communication is one of the key tools in the fight against disinformation and requires a broad approach. Disinformation campaigns are often not limited to spreading fake news, but often focus on building a damaging narrative. This implies a close relationship between the fight against disinformation and strategic communication, public diplomacy and digital communication.

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The Long Term Perspective for Defence 2030 - Comparative Analysis

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Security and defense are truly a priority for the member states of the European Union: fact of hoax?

Security and defense are truly a priority for the member states of the European Union: fact of hoax?

The Security Sector Reform of the Fragile State as a Tool for Conflict Prevention

Disinformation as a Contemporary Key Security Challenge in the Context of the Russian-Ukrainian Conflict

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