ROMANIA – IN SEARCH OF STRATEGY AND MEANING IN THE FIELD OF NATIONAL SECURITY
ROMANIA – IN SEARCH OF STRATEGY AND MEANING IN THE FIELD OF NATIONAL SECURITY

Summary/Abstract: Though the concept of ”national security” has become one of most the most invoked terms in recent Romanian public discourse, there is yet to be achieved little consensus on its complexity of meaning or field of application. Law no 51/1991 on national security is obsolete and in spite of various initiatives aimed at replacing it with a more modern version in touch with the spirit of the age and Romania’s European and international security commitments little progress has been achieved. Since 1991 the national security legal framework has been enriched with other pieces of legislature, giving rise to a complex and chaotic patchwork of measures where even experts find themselves lost.Furthermore, though boasting with having a National Security and a National Defence Strategy, Romania has encountered significant problems both in elaborating such strategic documents and moreover in getting them validated by the Parliament. The lack of a strategy, acknowledged and accepted by all political actors has been an obstacle in the execution of much needed reforms in the national security sector.The goal of this paper is to explore the problems posed by having such an obsolete legal framework regulating the field of national security, while on the other hand trying to study the reasons why Romania needs to devise and adopt a new National Security Strategy.

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