Threats to Peace and International Security: Asia versus West

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.

Dr. Juan Cayón Peña was born in 1968 in Madrid. French Language and Civilization (Sorbonne, 1988, Paris), Law Degree (UPCO, 1991, Madrid), Diploma in Legal Practice (UPCO, 1992, Madrid), Law Ph.D. Law Philosophy, morals and politics (UPCO, 1998, Madrid) and Rector of Nebrija University from 2014 to 2020. His university administrative career includes from Department Director to one-person positions in the university government, such as Secretary General, ViceRector for Institutional Relations, and Vice-Rector for International Relations in two different Universities. Throughout his teaching career, which began in 1993, he has taught a panoply of subjects and courses that cover all his specialty areas. Dr. Cayón has been appointed visiting professor at different foreign universities. During this time, he has been a Collaborating Professor in the Management of the Ministry of Justice and of the Training and Improvement Division of the National Police, as well as a lecturer at other prestigious Universities such as the Sorbonne University in Paris, the University of Buenos Aires, the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (Colombia), the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (Chile), and the Higher Center for National Defense Studies CESEDEN (Spain) He has directed several doctoral works and published 17 book chapters in indexed publishers such as Aranzadi Thompson-Reuters, Cambridge Scholar Publishing or Springer, as well as quite a few research articles in different journals. Corresponding academic at the Royal Academy of Jurisprudence and Legislation (Spain), where he is a member of the Ibero-American Law Section and of the permanent seminar on Natural Law; He is also a corresponding academic at the Academy of Arts and Sciences of Puerto Rico and a Fellow at the World Academy of Arts and Sciences He belongs to the Spanish National Group of the Pugwash Movement (Nobel Peace Prize 1995) and is also a full member of the Bolzano-based Institute for European Studies Antonio