The end of the cold war created a strategic vacuum in the South China Sea. The collapse of the Soviet Union and its departure from Cam Ranh Bay; the closure of the United States' naval bases in the Philippines; and Vietnam's withdrawal from Cambodia diminished superpower influence in the region. These events also prompted several East Asian littoral governments to recalculate the strategic and ...

publicpolicies are the functions of the political systems for the national sovereignty. governments govern national wills under public policies. if the legislative version of these public policies be provided upon the scientific and political considerations it still remains useless unless it could pass the implementation stage successfully. the implementation of the public policies is the main ...

background: in recent years, the concept of health security has received an international dimension. however, despite evident links between health and security the concept of health security is not used in either academic or political discourse in serbia. it comes as no surprise then that even though the issue of security challenges is present in serbian legislation, it has not been incorporate...

Data sovereignty, a catch-all term to describe different state behaviours towards data generated in or passing through national internet infrastructure, has become a topic of significant international debate in the wake of the Snowden revelations. A spectrum of approaches has emerged, with the United States and its allies viewing data ‘localisation’ as a threat to a free and open global interne...

Abstract International organizations ( io s) have repeatedly been challenged in their existence. In this essay, I review arguments about the causes of decline and survival existing research. While majority research has focused on structural pressures such as geopolitical crises, argue that s can also be threatened by member-states reasserting sovereignty, for example through budget cuts, non-co...