Securitate și libertate. Perspective istorice și percepții actuale
Security and Freedom – Historical Perspective and Current Perceptions

Summary/Abstract: The article focuses on the issues concerning the essence of the security and freedom, as far as the security environment is concerned and regarding the roles to be played by key entities, i.e. states. The historical perspective is shown, focusing on the approaches by respective philosophers. Further, the globalization and information revolution issues are described as the factors/ tools of influence. On one hand it is about to disseminate modern technologies, improving management methods and ways of finance, but on the other hand it is about to create new challenges and threats for security both in military and non-military realm. On this backdrop the author stresses, that the democracy cannot be considered only in terms of a system of institutions but also as a phenomenon of culture which implies the dominance in the public life of certain values and in consequence behavior in the political life also in relation to security issues

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