NEW THREATS Blurred boundaries between peace and war, latent trouble spots, the outbreak of unresolved conflicts and their unintentional or intentional military escalation, military interventions, the spread of terrorism, shifts of power between major regional players, migration flows on an unprecedented scale, new possibilities to influence opponents’ domestic politics due to digitalization, organized crime as a transnational threat and the consequences of the collapse of state structures in countries in geopolitically sensitive regions, call for new answers to the significantly heightened challenges and constant risks associated with external and internal security and new and/or extended and powerful capabilities for international efforts to maintain stability, security and peace.