Hum (Jan 2015)

GLOBAL SECURITY BETWEEN A STATE AND A MARKET

  • Mladen Staničić,
  • Josip Sapunar

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 14
pp. 181 – 196

Abstract

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The paradigm of global security has been changed after the Cold War. There are not so many possibilities for interstate conflicts (they are negligible, but not impossible), while global security is more endangered by the so called non-state actors such as different terrorist groups, new threats in the form of smuggling people, drugs, weapon of mass destruction, etc. It becomes harder and harder to react on them from the position of the state logics, it is necessary to react on them jointly, on the basis of common criteria and such criteria are offered by the market logics. Since states still play a certain role in reinforcing global security, it should be optimal to combine the logics of the state and market which means its interfusion. The evidence for that are problems which arise in solving the current security crises in the world, such as Ukraine case. If the solutions are searched only on the basis of the market logics or only on the basis of the state logics and not on the basis of interfusion of those two, perspectives for preserving global stability and security are crucially decreased.

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