Od národní bezpečnosti k mezinárodní bezpečnosti. Kodaňská škola na křižovatce strukturálního realismu, anglické školy a sociálního konstruktivismu
From National Security to International Security: Copenhagen School in Crossways of Structural Realism, English School and Social Constructivism

Summary/Abstract: The works of Buzan, Waever and their colleagues from COPRI represent the turning point in security analysis and in conceptualisation of security in the first half of the 1990’s. The Copenhagen conceptualisation of security is based on the following three theoretical approaches - structural realism, the English School and social constructivism. Buzan, Waever and de Wilde develop the concept of national security and conceptualise international security. For the Copenhagen group the main referent object is state, which abandones the traditional hierarchy of values, i.e. the main value is not sovereignty or territoriality any more. The existence of state, respectivelly the existence of various values of state can be threatened by political-military as well as by economical, environmental and societal-cultural threats. In the process of conceptualisation of security, the Copenhagen school places more emphasis on the impact of the environment of the state and on the means of how the state or political elites interpret the environment. Buzan and his colleagues understand security not as objective but as subjective and social constructed fact.

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