CORUPŢIA – VULNERABILITATE ŞI RISC LA ADRESA SECURITĂŢII NAŢIONALE
CORRUPTION – VULNERABILITY AND RISK TO NATIONAL SECURITY

Summary/Abstract: The integration and the liberalization of the borders have brought new sources of menace on security among which corruption and organized crime are prominent. Corruption manifests itself and influences in a negative way the security of the state. Corruption encourages the risk factors, while these risk factors encourages corruption. The link between corruption and organized crime have weaked the institutions of the state of law up to dissolution. Corruption has manifested itself at the political, economic, social and cultural level in all great empires; it hasn’t been conceived by the Romanians. In Romania corruption was manifested in all ages with variable intensity. Corruption has economic, institutional, political, social and moral causes. After 1989, in Romania corruption acts intensified and affected all fields of activity: economic, social, political, administrative. The massive privatization of the Romanian economy was the most important source of corruption. Corruption degradates public property, limits access to investments, affects consume, markets, production and has negative effects on the welfare of the population, the state institutions and economic agents. The phenomenon of corruption amplifies the vulnerabilities and the risk factors from the point of view on national security.

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