Last year, the American National Intelligence Council published a world’s evolution prognosis, outlining its future until 2020. The stake of US supremacy pervaded the projection of the American agency concluding that, by 2020, the world would not undergo radical changes, while American hegemony, though threatened, would uphold.
Before analyzing global changes, Romanians are interested in the challenges of ordering Romania’s neighboring environs, as well as in giving an appropriate projection to the major regional security topics relevant for the area,.
Romania has been finding itself at the center of several geopolitical global projects, thus entailing an urgent establishment of a viable connection between the decision-making entities responsible with the implementation of these projects. The “security” feature is essential to these projects as our analysis starts from pinpointing Romania’s security risks by comparing them to the evolutions of its Eastern neighbors comprising powerful energies and tensions.
Regional democratic processes are affected at such a large a scale that they raise questions and arouse anxieties worldwide. “The Russian democratic endeavor has been backsliding”, stated Vice Admiral Michael McConnell when summoned in front of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence for a hearing concerning present and future threats to the US’s national security. Starting from this assertion, the present study aims at briefly outlining features relevant for Ukraine, Moldova and Russia, as well as at evoking the interaction of those “Eastern processes” concerning Romania’s national security.
