Sociologická charakteristika medzinárodnej bezpečnosti
The Sociological Characteristic of International Security

Summary/Abstract: The Sociological Characteristic of International Security. The article aims at international dimensions of security and its macro-sociological aspects. First part of contribution analyses sociological approaches to the security research. Security issues were content, but only partly, of several theories and conceptions in the development of sociological thinking. In present are security issues related mainly to the national security part of conception of risk society. Author discusses two conceptions of security: traditional, narrow and new (modern), wide. The second part of study is orientated on the sociological aspects of international relations and international security. Sociological point of view on international security is based on tradition of military sociology. Changing security situation in the world and the end of cold war brought along new suggestions for research in the international security issues. Theories of post-modern society and globalisation significantly influenced the debates about international security. Sociological approach to the international security accentuates the problems of power, order, control, interests, interaction, communication and cooperation of subjects of security and their identity. The third part of the article is devoted to the problems of cooperation and conflict in international security, the changes of security environment in connection with new security threats, three conceptions of international security – cooperative security, human security and democratic peace – and international terrorism. Sociológia 2003 Vol 35 (No. 5: 391-410)

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