SOCIETAL DIMENSION OF SECURITY IN THE EURO-ATLANTIC CONTEXT
SOCIETAL DIMENSION OF SECURITY IN THE EURO-ATLANTIC CONTEXT
Author(s): Ioan Manci, Dan MAGALIUC, Adrian DIMCEAContributor(s): Ligia BAIDOC (Translator)
Subject(s): Security and defense, Military policy, Politics and Identity, Peace and Conflict Studies
Published by: Centrul tehnic-editorial al armatei
Keywords: hybrid warfare; societal security; social security; identity; risk;
Summary/Abstract: The authors discuss the concept of societal security in the Euro-Atlantic context, emphasising its importance in relation to hybrid threats. Thus, it is shown that the current period is one in which aggressors are seeking unexpected ways to profit from their strengths and opportunities and not to provide any to the enemy. In the context of hybrid threats, military weaknesses are not the only ones essential, unconventional threats to societal security being even more important, as they seek to exploit ethnic tensions, weak and corrupt institutions or economic and energy dependence. Therefore, weak states, namely those without strong institutions, with citizens who are uncommitted or even hostile to the state, dependent economically on potential enemies, corroded by corruption, are more vulnerable to hybrid threats.
Journal: Romanian Military Thinking
- Issue Year: 2015
- Issue No: 4
- Page Range: 11-20
- Page Count: 10
- Language: English
