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Национална безбедност – алтернативе и перспективе
National Security – Its Alternatives and Perspectives

Author(s): Zoran Dragišić
Subject(s): Political Theory, Security and defense, Military policy, Transformation Period (1990 - 2010)
Published by: Институт за политичке студије
Keywords: national security; human security; security paradigm; middle form of security;

Summary/Abstract: In this work author analyzed a modern concept of national security and alternatives to the concept that have appeared so far in contemporary theory and practice. The concept of human security that had emerged in the middle of nineties in last century has been estimated by many theoreticians as “a finally found” alternative to a state- centered concept of national security that excluded a person- individual as a referential object of security defense. However, the states which have been among the first ones to have embraced this concept of human security and implemented it into their own security strategies and politics have not abandoned from their systems of national security at the same time. On the contrary, majority of these states have additionally strengthened their own armed forces, therefore in practice having established some sort of a middle form of these two concepts, that is being regarded as a basis for a new conceptualization of security.

  • Issue Year: 2010
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 217-232
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Serbian