TRENDS REGARDING THE GLOBAL AND REGIONAL THREATS IN THE AGE OF GLOBALIZATION

Nowadays, in the context of a security environment that becomes more and more turbulent, the threats to nations’ security seem to be more intense than ever. International security organizations are making efforts to maintain peace on the Blue Planet at least at the present stage, but little is known about their chances of success. In this unstable environment, in the framework of globalization, some nations do not seem able to find, at least for the time being, the right ways of action so as to handle the new global and regional threats. The authors of this paper show their opinions on the current global and regional threats, the ways in which they might affect Romania’s national security and how decisionmakers should react in order to preserve national integrity and sovereignty