Caracterul performativ al securității
The Performative Character of Security

Summary/Abstract: The traditional approach of international relations, centered around the realist paradigm of Power Politics is being questioned by new approaches like constructivism or post-structuralism. Concepts like sovereignty, security or identity are reexamined and new questions are being raised: what happens with the centrality of the state in a new environment governed by the logic of globalization and interdependency? what happens with the traditional logic of security, now that we are confronted with new and uncommon threats? how are we to respond to the immigrants, now that geographical boundaries no longer bound? This paper focuses on the concept of security, as understood by Ole Wæver, a member of the Copenhagen School of Security Studies and examines it as a construct, rather a process than something a priori given. It does not suffice to identify a threat, but one should understand why and how certain issues become security problems. Should we treat them in terms of security or rather in terms of risk management? This kind of critical approach, by stressing on the importance of the implications of such a decision, promotes the concept of de-securization, or to use the mainstream formula, preventive security, or risk management.

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