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11 Europolity: Continuity & Change Eur. Governance 5 (2017)
The Security of Critical Energy Infrastructure in the Age of Multiple Attack Vectors: NATO's Multi-Faceted Approach

handle is hein.journals/eurpol11 and id is 7 raw text is: EUROPOLITY, vol 11, no. 1, 2017 THE SECURITY OF CRITICAL ENERGY INFRASTRUCTURE IN THE AGE OF MULTIPLE ATTACK VECTORS: NATO'S MULTI-FACETED APPROACH Amb. Dr. Sorin Dumitru Ducaru1 NATO Assistant Secretary General, NATO Brussels, Belgium ducaru.sorin@hq.natoint Abstract The current NATO threat landscape is characterized by a combination or hybrid blend of unconventional emerging challenges (like cyber and terrorist attacks) and re-emerging conventional ones (like Russia's recent military resurgence and assertiveness, that led to the illegal annexation of Crimea and destabilization in Eastern Ukraine). While the resurgence of the Russian military activity pushed the Alliance in the direction of re-discovering its deterrence and collective defence role, the new, not-traditional, trans-national and essentially non-military treats that generate effects below the threshold of an armed attack require a new paradigm shift with a focus on resilience although the protection of critical energy infrastructure is first and foremost a national responsibility, NATO can contribute to meeting the infrastructure protection challenge on many levels. Given the fact that its core deterrence and defence mandate relies in a great measure on the security of Allies' energy infrastructure NATO's role and I Amb. Sorin Dumitru Ducaru is NATO Assistant Secretary General. As head of the Emerging Security Challenges Division which includes the Cyber Defence section he also chairs of NATO's Cyber Defence Comnttee (CDC) and the Cyber Defence Management Board (CDMB). The opinions are provided in this paper on personal, expert basis and should not be interpreted as engaging NATO. Continuity and Change in Europeai Governance

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