Research Group on European Security and Defence Studies - GEPOLCOM

Reference of the Group:

GIUV2017-361

 
Description of research activity:

The research is focused on the comparative analysis of democratisation and democratic quality processes in culturally, socially, economically and politically different countries and of the main threats to democratic stability in terms of both international security and the emergence of extremist groups within said democracies. There is a collaboration with institutions such as the South African University of Stellenbosch's Centre for International and Comparative Politics and Military institutions of various countries.

 
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Scientific-technical goals:
  • Analyze the main internal and external threats to this political stability in terms of international security.
  • Analyze the factors that stabilize democratic legitimacy.
  • Analyze the differences between elite and citizenry in terms of satisfaction, democratic support, and institutional trust.
  • Analyze support for extremist parties.
  • Analyze the fight against radicalism and extreme violence.
  • Analyzing the fight against terrorism from a gender perspective.
  • Analyze the factors that determine political stability in contemporary democracies.
 
Research lines:
  • Electoral behaviour.Quantitative analysis of factors determinative of elite and citizen votes in the national elections of their corresponding countries.
  • Institutional trust.Analysis and evolution of the level of citizen and elite trust towards State institutions particularly in economic crisis situations.
  • International security.Analysis and assessment of security policies, such as military and civil operations, geopolitics, proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, economic sanctions.
  • European security and defence policies. External action.Analysis and assessment of the European security and defence policies, such as military and civil operations, geopolitics, the global strategy in security and defence of the European Union, regional strategies for the Mediterranean, Sahel missions, counterterrorist struggle of the EU in Sahel.
 
Group members:
Name Nature of participation Entity Description
ANTONIO CARLOS GARCIA RIVERODirectorUniversitat de València
Research team
CLARA PORTELA SAISMemberUniversitat de València
REGINA LAGUNA MICOCollaboratorUniversitat de València
REGINA LAGUNA MICOCollaboratorUniversitat de València
REGINA LAGUNA MICOCollaboratorUniversitat de València - Estudi GeneralUVEG PhD student
ROSA MARI ROIG BERENGUERCollaboratorUniversitat de València
HENNIE KOTZECollaboratorStellenbosch University (Sudáfrica)Tenured university professor
SAMUEL LÓPEZ CABRERACollaboratorDIRECCION GENERAL GUARDIA CIVILResearcher
 
CNAE:
  • -
 
Associated structure:
  • Constitutional Law, Political and Administrative Sciences
 
Keywords:
  • EU
  • ELECTIONS
  • DEMOCRACY
  • MEDITERRANEAN
  • POLITICAL CULTURE
  • USE OF FORCE
  • INSTITUTIONS
  • POLITICAL BEHAVIOR
  • VOTE
  • TRUST
  • MULTILATERALISM
  • OSCE
  • NATO
  • COUNTER-TERRORIST FIGHT
  • PEACE MISSIONS
  • MIDDLE EAST
  • SAHEL