RELEVANCE OF WATER RESOURCE FOR THE NATIONAL SECURITY
RELEVANCE OF WATER RESOURCE FOR THE NATIONAL SECURITY

Summary/Abstract: The “security” concept has become extremely current, being used in the most varied fields of activity and expressing a state which, in the Cold War era, corresponded only to the state and the international environment in which it operated. With the disappearance of the system based almost exclusively on military confrontation, the old concept of security has been enriched by its imprinting with elements specific to other fields of activity, thus responding theoretically to the incredible transformations from the internal or international security environment. In this regard, it is worth mentioning the Copenhagen School according to which security has five dimensions (military, economic, political, social, ecological), but also the United Nations Development Program which, through the 1994 Human Development Report, signalled the obtuseness of the concept of security, by ignoring the individual’s daily needs. This reconsideration of the security issue has given rise to a new perspective, that of human security.The concept of “water security”, which is at the heart of this research, has become more and more used today, thanks to the reconsideration of the importance of the water resource and its use as a political tool aimed at achieving the economic and military objectives of a state. Thus, the paper aims to analyze the concept of “water security” and to present its significance in practical terms, by highlighting some challenges that, affecting it, have consequences for the national security itself.

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