INFORMAȚIILE - IMPORTANȚA LOR ÎN ASIGURAREA SECURITĂȚII NAȚIONALE
INTELLIGENCE - THEIR IMPORTANCE IN PROVIDING NATIONAL SECURITY

Summary/Abstract: Current world trends, asymmetric proliferation of certain new threats and risks at the international security are a certainty alerting the national defense with respect to the concept and planning of concrete actions. The 21st century is marked by profound transformations from the perspective of the security environment. The world is becoming increasingly complex and interdependent, and the globalization phenomenon affirms itself as increasingly irreversible. The European countries’ security interests and objectives do not generate a conflict atmosphere; the security environment is positively influenced by the European and Euro-Atlantic integration processes, by the expansion of the community represented by the countries that share and promote the democratic and the market economy values, and also by the deepening of the regional collaboration. The enumeration, even though brief, of the challenges and the tasks that the intelligence service must face, point out the fact that their achievement require the undertaking of some overt and/or covert actions, the spending of resources, the employment of qualified human forces, the existence of specialized institutions, as well as complex efforts in the field of international concertation of their activities. At the same time, the threats, risks and vulnerabilities of the current security environment determine the secret services of the main global actors to cope with a series of equations whose solution is common. The path to a new ethics in the intelligence activity is a necessary strategy in the current global context. NATO’s essence, as an alliance, having as main objective to provide collective defense for its members, stipulated in its establishment act, is meant to lead to an increase in trust towards the intelligence services of the member states, and also to the enhancement of the constant exchange of useful data in for the documentation and the countering of the global threats, premises for the articulation of an adequate answer, with a pronounced anticipative nature. Cooperation in the intelligence field requires a new stage in the collaboration among specialized services: the shift of the gravity center from the exchange of general information, towards cooperation in particular cases and actions, as a way to best capitalize the potential provided by the partners involved.

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