Prepare Today for what we will face Tomorrow. An Albanian Perspective of Future Security Environment

Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2018 in the subject Politics - Topic: Peace and Conflict, Security, grade: PhD, , language: English, abstract: Does Albania have more or fewer risks and threats than 20 years ago? Which of them are decreasing and which are expected to increase? Which of them are internal, which are external, and which are trans-national? Which of them can come from state actors and which from non-state groups? What risks come as a result of globalization, what as a result of membership in international security structures, what as a consequence of regional ethnic issues, and what as a result of re-emergence of traditional risks? Further, what are the risks defined as new security challenges that our country can not avoid? And, last but not least, what are the risks coming as a result of the forces of nature, or caused by human or industrial disasters?No doubt, the security environment is not a question of only threats, risks and challenges. The national and regional security environment will be incomplete, without including the positive opportunities and chances it offers. Only based on this analytical approach, the security environment can be evaluated as a coin with two sides, in order to have a realistic assessment. Security environment is the barometer for the development of security institutions. The expectations of the security environment are the foundation of the National Security Strategy, the Military Strategy, and the Joint Doctrine of AAF. This article serves precisely the efforts currently being made for the formulation of these documents.