Threats to Peace and International Security: Asia versus West [electronic resource] : Current Challenges in a New Geopolitical Situation / edited by Juan Cayón Peña, J. Martín Ramírez.

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.

This book aims to analyze from a multidisciplinary perspective the current geopolitical conflict between East and West, between two differentiated and apparently conflicting cosmogonic visions. The geopolitical evolution of the current panorama seems to lead to a new world in the field of international relations, a new board played on a planetary level. Once again, bloc geopolitics can be glimpsed in the immediate future, in which the most important actors such as Russia, China, the United States of America, and the European Union are called to position themselves with respect to the territorial and strategic ambitions of the opponent. International law seems to be overwhelmed by military actions and factual pressure on the ground, while the battle of ideas extends to the technological field and cyberspace. The different origins of the authors, with extensive academic, military, police forces, and business experience undoubtedly enriches the unique perspective that this work intends to address, always in the attempt to enforce international law and the channels of dialogue between nations, such as the best solution to conflicts.