TRANSLATING THE COPENHAGEN SCHOOL: A VIEW FROM ROMANIA
TRANSLATING THE COPENHAGEN SCHOOL: A VIEW FROM ROMANIA

Summary/Abstract: Transferring ideas, either from one country to another or between different professional environments, can lead, many times, to the erroneous reception of the theoretical and empirical implications of not only certain premises, but of entire schools of thought. Unfortunately, this is the case of the way the Copenhagen school was adapted and internalized in the Romanian military-academic environment. The article aims to lay the groundwork for the rectification of errors generated by the way the Copenhagen school was adopted in Romania. It plans to overcome the simple idea that the Copenhagen school represented just an expansion of the concept of "security" and to unearth the ontological premises, the evolution of theoretical thought, as well as the implicit and explicit normative implications of the Copenhagen school. The article's main aim is to show that the initial theories of the founders of the Copenhagen school, as well as their further developments, are not adequate to being used in a military-academic environment and that the attempts to use them rely on a fragmentary and disparate adoption of some ideas. The central ideas of this school are more relevant for the civilian academic environment, especially political science, which treats the idea of "democracy" as a fundamental concept and explores the way to reach the desirable political regime.

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