Upload
luke-mathews
View
220
Download
1
Tags:
Embed Size (px)
Citation preview
Internal and external “soft” security concerns in the postmodern Europe
European security
Dr. Arūnas Molis23 April, 2014
Tallinn
Challenges and threats to security
Regional conflicts (real, potential, “frozen”): Israel – Arab world Russia – Georgia, Armenia – Azerbaijan Kosovo-Serbia, Bosnia Turkey-Greece, Turkey-Armenia
Internal unrests Separatism (Russia, Georgia, Kosovo, Spain, France, Moldova) Demographic challenges (aging
population, immigration, emigration)
Competition for resources and transportation lines EU-Russia-South Caucasus
Environmental pollution East Europe
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qU59B77VugQ
Risks and threats linked to energy security
U.S. Access, Carbon,
Hurricanes
Latin AmericaResource
Nationalism
NigeriaCivil Unrest
Iraq Sabotage
EuropeGas
Supplies
RussiaState Re-Control
Caspian Transit Vulnerability
IranNuclear Threat
AsiaEnergy
Subsidies
Strait of Malacca Piracy
Source: NPC, Global Oil and Gas Study, 2008Source: NPC, Global Oil and Gas Study, 2008
Major vulnerabilities in energy sector in the BS
Dependency on only few sources
Consumption
Dependency on the supplies from single destination
Source: Noël ,2008.
Source: www.enmin.lt
Vulnerability of the global energy infrastructure Exposure to acts of thefts, piracy, terrorism Ageing of the energy systems, natural disasters Growing cyber terrorism
Between 1990-2005: 330 terrorist attacks on ONG infrastructure were counted
Blockage of the Strait of
Hormuz would halt the passage
of 1/3 of World‘s
seaborne oil supplies
Brute force cyber attacks in the US, October 2012 – May 2013
The US DHS The Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team’s report 2012
“$60 piece of malware could bring down the power grid”
“It is possible to have a "system in which 100% of the components are secured, but the system as a whole is not secure at all”
“Do not fear hackers. Fear engineers who hack”
Global unrests and speculations on the markets
Crude oil prices, 2011
Absence of energy interconnections with European energy systems
Bad relations with major supplier - Russia
Due to the implementation of the Third Energy Package
Legal disputes in Stockholm arbitrage and EU CoJ
Due to initiatives oriented towards the Eastern Partnership countries (CEP external dimension)
Due to the position towards conflict in Ukraine
What do the dependency and bad relations actually mean?
Importance of energy sector in RF
Oil-and-gas exports – 65% of all exports
Oil-and-gas sales – 45-75 % of state budget revenues
Oil industry – 16 % of GDP
“Gazprom” – 25 % of federal tax revenues
Taxes on natural resources use/production – 36 % of the Federal budget
Oil and natural gas exports – crucial source of income and diplomatic power for
RF government
Structure of Russian exports by value, 2010; per cent
Rhetoric towards Lithuania “The third energy package will harm the activities
of our energy companies. We are talking in practice about the confiscation of property”
“Russia will try and prove the advantage of our approach”
“Russia sees itself to be in a much stronger position concerning energy supplies. The country’s energy based geo-political importance is also improving with every new headline from North Africa and the Gulf
Pressure in the gas sector
Gazprom’s and E.ON Ruhrgas International open letter: ”full separation of the transmission business from the rest of the company, could cause disruptions to gas supply”.
Lithuania is left out by giving a discount of 11-20 % for gas to Estonia and Latvia
In 2014 Lithuania paid 490 USD/1000 cub.m. of gas, other EU countries pay ~100 USD less
“Soft” tactics also applied…
Chelsea, Schalke 04, Zenit, FC Ekranas, Lukoil-academia
2 concerns of communicational security (hard and soft IS)
Technological aspects of IS – how to make the dissemination of information safe
Communicational structures – how not to loose the control over the dissemination of information
Cyber attacks
Main aims: Optain information Disperse false information Take over the control:
Switching off equipment Destroying physicaly
Main challenges: To know that you have been attacked To mitigate physical destruction possibility and
other damage
Propaganda and Info-wars
Latest move – creation of “Rossija segodnia”
Creation: http://www.euronews.com/2013/12/09/russia-putin-dissolves-state-news-agency-ria-novosti/
Comment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJCK9VORLW8
Activities: In russian: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgpbbB5MN-c in english: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkMT_oLempE
“The English language TV-channel Russia Today was set before the Kremlin propaganda cart in 2005, its annual budget exceeding $300m. As its programme looks like news, people believe that’s what it is; all the while, RT’s chief aim is enhancing hatred towards the West, as testified by the channel’s former employees”
Sofi Oksanen, winner of the Nordic Council Literature Prize 2010 http://news.postimees.ee/2745824/sofi-oksanen-don-t-deceive-us-again?utm_content=bufferecd52#comments
Info-wars: “New Russia” concept
“About the Baltic States, the world knows precious little – as also about Ukraine. Therefore, Russia’s agenda of questioning self-determination isn’t a task too impossible”
“Information war is the essence of the Kremlin power, being the cheapest means to wage war and to conquer lands without opening fire from its tanks. Intimidation, provocations, projection and propaganda – this is what Kremlin excels at. With these weapons, occupation has always been justified. Justified to own citizens, and to foreigners. As also today”.
Another project: rubalt.ru
“Western journalists are used to articles striving to present views of opposing parties being a drive towards the truth. That’s a wrong approach when one party is plainly lying.”
“Over the years, the Russian so-called media has managed to write of concentration camps created in Estonia for Russians (a lie dating 2007). In the mind of the Kremlin, Finland also historically belongs to Russia. And: in a Finnish hotel, children are being stolen from Russian tourists (a lie dating 2013).”
Insights on propaganda..
Climate Change issue
Global financial and economic crisis
Security is not immune to the crises
Low income + high unemployment + fragile states = explosive mix
ExtremismExtremism
RadicalismRadicalism
Hostile Hostile behaviorbehavior
IncomeIncome
EmploymentEmployment
Oil pricesOil prices
ToleranceTolerance
State powerState power