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�Efficient intelligence: from control to cooperation (George �OSINT and NATO (Daniela Olaru, Cristina Grigoraşenco)
Cristian Maior, SRI Director)
The article highlights the importance of open source intelligence for
The Director of the Romanian Intelligence Service (SRI) presents a NATO operations, NATO being one of the international organizations
thorough analysis of the Service's transformation.
This is a complex process aiming at improvements of the efficiency, of
that makes use of the open sources in its intelligence related activities.
the capabilities for gathering and assessing intelligence, of the means to
provide knowledge and vision to a democratic society.
�Unfair competition versus economic espionage (Cornelia
Burduşa)
The article opens an interesting perspective over the unfair competition
�On organizational authority and the decision making process versus economic espionage, presenting a series of initiatives enforced
(Marian Preda)
by democratic states to sanction this type of espionage. The author also
Based on logical arguments, the author presents the correlation between emphasizes the fact that every relevant organization has to take specific
authority and decision making, a relation often ignored by management
teams.
protection measures.
The author starts from the ways in which authority is built and
maintained, mentioning the types of authority and the decision making
process.
�Religion between globalization and fundamentalism (Cristian
Barna)
The author asks the readers to reflect upon the relationship between
�Second Life Jihad – Correlation of the new communication
religion, globalization and fundamentalism, expressing his concern
www.nato.int
about an undeniable aspect of contemporary times: the emergence of
platforms with Islamic propaganda (Andrei Vlădescu)
fundamentalism as a promoter of the return to the religious origins for
Assessing the extremist Islamist activity in the virtual environment as a
starting point, the author presents a series of conclusions on the way we
the rebirth of society.
should act to control and / or restrict the use of the Internet by terrorist
groups.
�The Cooperation between the Special Intelligence Service and
other intelligence structures during World War II (University
Lecturer Tănase Tiberiu)
�When our sovereignty changes (Răzvan Belciuganu)
The article is an interesting historical tour of Romanian intelligence
A well-known newspaperman, the author presents in a journalistic structures during World War II, reminding of the moment the national
manner the transformation of the intelligence services in Romania.
Considering the new international environment, the services will have
intelligence community was founded.
to take a pro-active stand in creating Romanian intelligence and security
models adjusted to the Euro-Atlantic area.
�Critical infrastructures and risk assessment of the new
asymmetric threats (Oana Magdalena Ciobanu)
The author starts by explaining the concept of critical infrastructure
�Open sources and the new media technologies (Cristian Păun) and presents the problems related to the protection of critical
The article targets mainly the experts in open sources and information infrastructures. She makes an assessment of the security risks and
technology, focusing on the importance of the new technologies for
OSINT.
introduces the European point of view on biological threats.
The author says that the analytical products derived from open sources
need adequate tools for intelligence gathering, selection, processing,
dissemination and reporting.
�On the history of the intelligence training system (Cristian
Troncotă)
This document is based on the existing archives and remarkably
describes the training system of the Romanian intelligence officers until
�The importance of the Black Sea for the Romanian energy
security strategy. The Black Sea as an European interface
the establishment of the Communist regime.
between the Caspian Sea and the Middle East (Ligia Leaua) �The ethics of intelligence analysis (Bizadea Cristian)
The author tackles an important issue on the national and global agenda: This journalistic work presents, at an academic level, the ethics of
the Euro-Atlantic energy security in the Black Sea region, also intelligence analysis, particularly the fulfillment of three main
mentioning relevant matters for the Romanian energy security. objectives: the process accuracy, the product comprehensibility and the
well-intentioned purpose of the actions.
�Projects on natural gas transportation in the context of the
global economic crisis (Marilena Dumitru) �Globalization and its effect on terrorism (Florin Ştibli)
The analysis made by the Open Sources Center (OSC) reveals elements The author draws a comparison between globalization and terrorism,
belonging to the EU energy policy and the barriers preventing this underlines the effects of the globalization process on this
policy from being implemented. contemporary phenomenon and concludes by opening a debate
The author also stresses the effects of both the January 2009 Russia – regarding the impact of terrorism on human rights.
Ukraine crisis and the international financial crisis.
�The management of the information assessment process in
contemporary intelligence (Ionel Niţu, Marius Perianu)
The authors emphasize a series of imperative transformations which
the management of the information assessment process has to go
through in modern intelligence, analyzing this aspect from different
�OSINT, applied early warning methods and their relevance to
the Extended Black Sea Region (Iulian Chifu)
The author considers that OSINT, as well as the new creative early
warning methods can turn into appropriate means for countering
terrorist actions that have also proved to be very creative, lately.
perspectives: functional, methodological, structural, relational and
cognitive.
�The justification of the terrorists' antisocial behavior (Cristian
Delcea)
�Cyber crimes in Romania (Eduard Bîsceanu)
The article reveals the rising trend of cyber crimes, that can be noticed
both at national and European level and may eventually pose the risk of
new asymmetric threats to the national security of Romania.
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The author reveals a number of aspects regarding the terrorists'
psychology and presents the techniques used by terrorists in order to
justify their own actions: their moral grounds, the leader's authority, the
attempt to minimize and ignore the victim's suffering and their moral
disengagement.