Threats to Peace and International Security: Asia versus West

lt;p>Dr. Juan Cayón Peña was born in 1968 in Madrid. French Language and Civilization (Sorbonne,

1988, Paris), Law Degree (UPCO, 1991, Madrid), Diploma in Legal Practice (UPCO, 1992, Madrid),

Law Ph.D. Law Philosophy, morals and politics (UPCO, 1998, Madrid) and Rector of Nebrija

University from 2014 to 2020. His university administrative career includes from Department

Director to one-person positions in the university government, such as Secretary General, ViceRector for Institutional Relations, and Vice-Rector for International Relations in two different

Universities. Throughout his teaching career, which began in 1993, he has taught a panoply of

subjects and courses that cover all his specialty areas. Dr. Cayón has been appointed visiting

professor at different foreign universities. During this time, he has been a Collaborating Professor

in the Management of the Ministry of Justice and of the Training and Improvement Division of

the National Police, as well as a lecturer at other prestigious Universities such as the Sorbonne

University in Paris, the University of Buenos Aires, the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana

(Colombia), the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (Chile), and the Higher Center for

National Defense Studies CESEDEN (Spain) He has directed several doctoral works and

published 17 book chapters in indexed publishers such as Aranzadi Thompson-Reuters,

Cambridge Scholar Publishing or Springer, as well as quite a few research articles in different

journals. Corresponding academic at the Royal Academy of Jurisprudence and Legislation

(Spain), where he is a member of the Ibero-American Law Section and of the permanent

seminar on Natural Law; He is also a corresponding academic at the Academy of Arts and

Sciences of Puerto Rico and a Fellow at the World Academy of Arts and Sciences He belongs to

the Spanish National Group of the Pugwash Movement (Nobel Peace Prize 1995) and is also a

full member of the Bolzano-based Institute for European Studies Antonio Rosmini He has been

awarded the First Class Cross of San Raimundo de Peñafort by the Spanish Ministry of Justice,

the Grand Cross of Naval Merit by the Spanish Ministry of Defense. In the international arena,

among others, he was recognized with the Medal of the Colombian War School and the

academic distinction of the General Directorate of Schools of the National Police of Colombia

and the Peruvian Lawyers Order by Lima Bar Association, among other distinctions.

Dr. J. Martín Ramírez was born in Madrid. Honorary Professor of Nebrija University, currently, he

is Chair of its Center for Conflict Studies, of the CICA International Foundation; and of the Spanish

Pugwash Movement (Peace Nobel Laureate, 1995). He studied Medicine, Humanities, and Law,

obtaining a Ph.D. degree in Medicine and Surgery (Neurosciences) and in Philosophy

(Education), as well as three Diplomas and a Master's in National Defense at the Spanish MoD

Center for Advanced Studies for Defence (CESEDEN). He is a Humboldt & Fullbright Fellow at Ruhr

Universität and Stanford, respectively. Dr. Martín Ramírez is also a Research Fellow of the

International Security Program of Harvard University and Visiting Fellow of the Hoover Institution

on War, Revolution and Peace, Stanford University, probably the two most important left-leaned

and right-leaned American think-tanks, respectively. He also served as Visiting Professor and

Research Fellow at universities in Israel, France, Poland, Wales, Australia, Japan, Canada, Iran,

Guatemala, Germany, and the USA. He has been awarded multiple international honors, such

as being several times official of the Boarding Counsel of the International Society for Research

on Aggression (ISRA), on the Advisory Board of the Society

PREFACE.- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS AND INTRODUCTION.- Part 1 - European perspective.- Chapter 1. Sovereignty and Defence in the future of the European Union.- Chapter 2. The hegemonic rivalry between the PRC and US: EU's place.- Chapter 3. The Russia-Ukraine conflict from an international law perspective.- Chapter 4. The Russian commitment to Eurasianism: A crazy idea for European Security and Defence?.- Chapter 5. Eurasia vs. West: history, causes, and issues related to de Ukrainian war.- Chapter 6. Security of the Eastern Borders of the EU in the context of the Functions of the European Border and Coast Guard Agency. Selected elements.- Part 2 - Far East Challenges.- Chapter 7. Chinese expansionism without borders. Threat to international security.- Chapter 8. Chinese influence in the southern cone: Bolivia, Chile and Argentina.- Chapter 9. The role of the Philippines in the South China Sea.- Chapter 10. Artificial Islands in the South China Sea. Territorial Disputes in the Area. United Nations Conference of the Law of the Sea proposals.- Chapter 11. The arbitral decision regarding historic rights and the lawfulness of certain actions of China in the South China Sea under Annex VII to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.- Part 3 - Global Risks.- Chapter 12. The risk of misuse of nuclear technology in the context of geopolitical conflict between the west and the east.- Chapter 13. Returned foreign terrorist fighters: different responses to a common security threat to Asia and the West?.- Chapter 14. Cyber intelligence over Cyber security in the Asia-West conflict.- Chapter 15. Jihad in Europe: Towards a predictive model for the neutralization of terrorist threats.- Chapter 16. Developments oblige the new Iranian Government to give a higher priority to its neighbouring countries.- Chapter 17. Analysis of Crisis management systems in the contexts of the Global Economic Crisis and Military-Political Changes.- EPILOGUE.