SOCIETAL SECURITY THROUGH COMPETITIVE INTELLIGENCE
SOCIETAL SECURITY THROUGH COMPETITIVE INTELLIGENCE

Author(s): Adina MIHĂESCU
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences
Published by: Carol I National Defence University Publishing House
Keywords: social security; societal threats; competitive intelligence;
Summary/Abstract: Starting from the politologist Arnold O. Wolfers’s definition: "Security, in an objective sense, measures the absence of threats to acquired values, and in a subjective sense, the absence of fear that such values will be attacked"; we can view societal security as an idea of the human communities of survival and continuity of the collective identity and values. If security means the absence of threats, and more than that, the absence of fear, communities need predictability to manage the vulnerabilities they are facing, to overcome challenges and to resist possible threats.Therefore, it is essential to have a detailed data collection (information) process. And this activity is the competence of the Competitive Intelligence (C.I.) structures, which creates a relevant data gathering, transforming them into intelligence, and then it creates analysis and proposes solutions and pertinent approaching methods, depending on the conjuncture and facts

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