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iafie18Last year Bob de Graaf (University of Ultrecht and Netherlands Defense Academy, Breda, The Netherlands) and James M. Nyce (Ball State University, USA) started a project on an edited volume about lesser-known European Intelligence Communities. The idea behind the volume is that intelligence studies are still focused on four countries: The US, the UK, Russia (and the former Soviet Union), and Israel. Since many European nations now have some kind of academic intelligence studies the need for information about the intelligence communities of other European nations has increased.

During the conference the group expressed an interest in institutionalizing its cooperation beyond the book project. As most of the authors are working in academia teaching intelligence studies, it was decided that the most logical way of doing so would be to establish the group as the starting point of a European chapter of International Association for Intelligence Education (IAFIE). The Group decided unanimously to have Siegfried Beer (Austria), Bob de Graaf (the Netherlands), Pierre Memheld (France) and John M. Nomikos (Greece) on the first board of this European chapter. (IAFIE Newsletter, Spring 2014, Vol. VI, No.2, p:3)

EPIN logoIn June 2014, EPIN received three new members: Think Tank Europa (Denmark), Centre for European Affairs (Slovakia) and the Research Institute for European and American Studies (Greece). Among the areas of expertise of Think Tank EUROPA are labour market policy, the European internal market, he EU's handling of the economic crisis, Danish attitudes to the EU, Danish EU opt-outs, democracy, European growth and competitiveness and jobs. The Centre for European Affairs (CEA) focuses on economic, financial and political aspects of the EU integration dynamics, strategic EU policies and puts a notable accent on Slovak positions within the processes of decision-making and agenda- setting on both the local and the European levels. The objective of the Research Institute for European and American Studies (RIEAS) is to promote the understanding of international affairs. Special attention is devoted to transatlantic relations, intelligence studies and terrorism, European integration, international security, Balkan, Mediterranean and Middle East studies, Russian foreign policy as well as policy-making on national and international level. [copied from: EPIN NEWSLETTER, "Summer 2014"].

aademieAntonia Dimou (University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan & RIEAS Senior Advisor) delivered a speech on “Intelligence and Building Democracy in Jordan), and John M Nomikos (RIEAS Director) was chairman of the panel titled Challenges of Intelligence and Democracy in the 2014 Annual Conference of the International Intelligence History Association (IIHA) in the Academie fur Politische Bildung (Academic for Civil Education) in Tutzing on 2-4 May 2014.

Daria Bazzarkina published her 3rd book in the series “Communication Management in World Politics and Business” of the International Center for Socio-Political Research and Consulting Moscow, Russia. The title of the Book is “Application Areas of Communication Management in anti-terrorist structures” (on materials of the European Union). The original Russian title is: “Возможности применения коммуникационного менеджмента в антитеррористических структурах - на материалах Европейского Союза”. Daria Bazzarkina’s book attempts to summarize the existing theoretical approaches to communication aspects of the anti-terrorist activities, analyzing the positive and negative consequences of the actions of national and supranational power structures of the European Union in the fight against terrorism since 2001.

The book is intended to law enforcement professionals, specialists in the field of political science, journalists, and anyone who is interested in the problem of terrorism.

Dr. George D. Vardangalos (RIEAS Development Manager) contributed an endorsement for Daria Bazzarkinas Book.

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