New Faces Conference 2006
Security in a Globalized World: Toward Regional Cooperation and Strategic Partnerships
The end of the Cold War brought with it the end of the traditional, bipolar geo-strategic model of explaining world affairs. “Feindbilder" have been replaced by security threats perceived to be truly global and functional in nature, yet regional in origin. The realization that in today’s globalized and interlinked world regional conflicts can have global fallout has increased the need for policy analysts to better understand the highly complex nature of different regional security dynamics.