CONCEPTS – COOPERATIVE SECURITY, SECURITY COMMUNITIES
CONCEPTS – COOPERATIVE SECURITY, SECURITY COMMUNITIES

Author(s): Cătălin-Valentin Vlad
Subject(s): Security and defense
Published by: Carol I National Defence University Publishing House
Keywords: cooperative security; security communities; collective security; collective defence;
Summary/Abstract: This article aims to outline and analyse the main concepts of cooperative security and security communities that have been initiated and developed over the years in order to create, develop and maintain a national, regional and international security environment that generates and promotes stability, peace, cooperation and good neighbourly relations under the legitimacy framework provided by laws and international recognized treaties. Identifying and analysing the main theoretical concepts of cooperative security and security communities focused on ensuring collective cooperative security is the key element of understanding the initiating and developing mechanism of the collective and cooperative security initiatives at the regional and international level aimed to promote and harmonize the needs of national security. The article will focus on the security communities’ theory initiated by Wagenen and formulated by Deutsch, in the middle of the last century, revaluated by Adler in the early 1990s and on Cohen’s cooperative security model viewed from the comprehensive perspective of promoting individual and collective security and stability.

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