Lecture 1: introduction to GS Flashcards
Definition of security:
The state or condition of being or feeling secure
1. Freedom from care, anxiety or apprehension: absence of worry or anxiety…
Not focused on us as individual’s
4 S´s: Cold War paradigm
State –> most important agents and referents of security in international politics.
strategy –> core intellectual and practical concerns revolved around devising the best means of employing the threat and use of military force.
Science –> analysis adopt scientific methods to create reliable base of knowledge in which policies can be based
Status Quo –> preventing radical and revolutionary change and preventing global catastrophe.
1983: the year that changed everything
Buzan’s concept of security comprises 5 elements:
Military: traditional strategic studies
Political: organizational stability of states, systems of government and the ideologies that give them their legitimacy
Economic: access to resources, finance and markets necessary to sustain acceptable levels of welfare and state power
Societal: sustainability and evolution of traditional patterns of language, culture, and religious and national identity and custom
Environmental: maintenance of the local and the planetary biosphere as the essential support system on which all other human enterprises depend
