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 Gregor Garb[1]

Abstract

Due to the effects of globalization and the responses to it, the current strategic geopolitical environment is rapidly and fundamentally changing and becoming volatile and unstable. Therefore, it is expected and understandable that such consequences also have an influence on changing priorities in ensuring security dilemmas. It is becoming increasingly clear that the established state-centric view, understanding of security threats and responding to them with military force can no longer follow the security needs of modern society. Thus, two approaches have been identified for defining security in recent decades. In the traditional concept of security, the interests, values, needs, and rights of individuals and social groups are subordinated to the interests of the state, while modern perspectives follow a changed security environment, which also affects changes in security referent objects. Instead of the state, ie. non-state actors, are becoming more and more imperative. The diversification of threats, and the people behind them, are generating new challenges for the security communities, as well as to society as a whole. Therefore, it would be completely unacceptable and wrong to push the nation-state into the background and understand other referent objects in terms of security only as the most important ones.

Keywords: referent objects, security paradigm, traditional and modern security perspectives, multidimensionality of security

Cite this article:
Garb Gregor. DISCUSSION OF SECURITY AS A SOCIAL PHENOMENON IN A CHANGING SECURITY ENVIRONMENT. Innovative Issues and Approaches in Social Sciences, vol.15, no.:91-110,

Digital Object Identifier(DOI): https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6395176
View full text in pdf: http://www.iiass.com/pdf/IIASS-2022-no15-art6.pdf