David Schultz is a distinguished professor of political science and legal studies at Hamline University in Saint Paul, Minnesota, and professor of law at the University of Minnesota. Aurelija Puraite is a professor in the Institute of Law and Law Enforcement at the Academy of Public Security in Mykolas Romeris University, a vice-dean for science and project activities at the Academy of Public Security, and a head of the Sustainable Security Research Centre. Vidmante Giedraityte is an associate professor of public management at General Jonas Žemaitis military academy of Lithuania, a head of Security Institutions Management Research Group, and lecturer of law at Kaunas University of Technology.

It is hard to think of any other aspect of human, public, national or international security that is not covered here. Nor does the collection confine itself to analysis…. Europe Alone ambitiously pleads for the establishment of security and safety studies as a separate discipline that can holistically deal with the entire range of issues – from waste management and nuclear strikes to organised crime and sustainable development – that are ably discussed in this collection.

• 1 Introduction: Theoretical and Methodological Aspects of the Definition of, and Research into, Security of a Small State Vytautas ŠlapkauskasPART I: GEOPOLITICAL CHALLENGES AND SECURITY THREATS 2 The End of the American Century: European Security without the United StatesDavid Schultz3 The Complexity of Defense of the Small States in the Shadow of Russia’s Power: The Case Analysis of the Baltic StatesGiedrius Cesnakas4 Economic Security Indicators during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Cross-Country Comparative AnalysisŽaneta Simanaviciene, Arturas Simanavicius, and Alla Cherep5 The Emerging Concepts of Energy Security: Energy Resilience Gintaras Labutis6 Ecological Threats Egle Štareike7 Terrorism as a Global Threat to Security Gediminas Gediminas BuciunasPART II: CHALLENGES AND THREATS TO EU AND NATIONAL SECURITY 8 EU Security Policy and Priorities: Highway or a Cliff at the End of the Road? Mantas Bileišis and Svajune Unguryte-Ragauskiene9 Organized Crime and Corruption as a S

David Schultz is a distinguished professor of political science and legal studies at Hamline University in Saint Paul, Minnesota, and professor of law at the University of Minnesota. Aurelija Puraite is a professor in the Institute of Law and Law Enforcement at the Academy of Public Security in Mykolas Romeris University, a vice-dean for science and project activities at the Academy of Public Security, and a head of the Sustainable Security Research Centre. Vidmante Giedraityte is an associate professor of public management at General Jonas Žemaitis military academy of Lithuania, a head of Security Institutions Management Research Group, and lecturer of law at Kaunas University of Technology.

It is hard to think of any other aspect of human, public, national or international security that is not covered here. Nor does the collection confine itself to analysis…. Europe Alone ambitiously pleads for the establishment of security and safety studies as a separate discipline that can holistically deal with the entire range of issues – from waste management and nuclear strikes to organised crime and sustainable development – that are ably discussed in this collection.

• 1 Introduction: Theoretical and Methodological Aspects of the Definition of, and Research into, Security of a Small State Vytautas ŠlapkauskasPART I: GEOPOLITICAL CHALLENGES AND SECURITY THREATS 2 The End of the American Century: European Security without the United StatesDavid Schultz3 The Complexity of Defense of the Small States in the Shadow of Russia’s Power: The Case Analysis of the Baltic StatesGiedrius Cesnakas4 Economic Security Indicators during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Cross-Country Comparative AnalysisŽaneta Simanaviciene, Arturas Simanavicius, and Alla Cherep5 The Emerging Concepts of Energy Security: Energy Resilience Gintaras Labutis6 Ecological Threats Egle Štareike7 Terrorism as a Global Threat to Security Gediminas Gediminas BuciunasPART II: CHALLENGES AND THREATS TO EU AND NATIONAL SECURITY 8 EU Security Policy and Priorities: Highway or a Cliff at the End of the Road? Mantas Bileišis and Svajune Unguryte-Ragauskiene9 Organized Crime and Corruption as a S

David Schultz is a distinguished professor of political science and legal studies at Hamline University in Saint Paul, Minnesota, and professor of law at the University of Minnesota. Aurelija Puraite is a professor in the Institute of Law and Law Enforcement at the Academy of Public Security in Mykolas Romeris University, a vice-dean for science and project activities at the Academy of Public Security, and a head of the Sustainable Security Research Centre. Vidmante Giedraityte is an associate professor of public management at General Jonas Žemaitis military academy of Lithuania, a head of Security Institutions Management Research Group, and lecturer of law at Kaunas University of Technology.

It is hard to think of any other aspect of human, public, national or international security that is not covered here. Nor does the collection confine itself to analysis…. Europe Alone ambitiously pleads for the establishment of security and safety studies as a separate discipline that can holistically deal with the entire range of issues – from waste management and nuclear strikes to organised crime and sustainable development – that are ably discussed in this collection.

• 1 Introduction: Theoretical and Methodological Aspects of the Definition of, and Research into, Security of a Small State Vytautas ŠlapkauskasPART I: GEOPOLITICAL CHALLENGES AND SECURITY THREATS 2 The End of the American Century: European Security without the United StatesDavid Schultz3 The Complexity of Defense of the Small States in the Shadow of Russia’s Power: The Case Analysis of the Baltic StatesGiedrius Cesnakas4 Economic Security Indicators during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Cross-Country Comparative AnalysisŽaneta Simanaviciene, Arturas Simanavicius, and Alla Cherep5 The Emerging Concepts of Energy Security: Energy Resilience Gintaras Labutis6 Ecological Threats Egle Štareike7 Terrorism as a Global Threat to Security Gediminas Gediminas BuciunasPART II: CHALLENGES AND THREATS TO EU AND NATIONAL SECURITY 8 EU Security Policy and Priorities: Highway or a Cliff at the End of the Road? Mantas Bileišis and Svajune Unguryte-Ragauskiene9 Organized Crime and Corruption as a S