The theoretical debate in international security: changes in relation to terrorism?

• Autor(a) principal: Rudzit, Gunther
• Data de Publicação: 2006
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Civitas - Revista de Ciências Sociais (Porto Alegre. Online)
• Texto Completo: https://revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br/index.php/civitas/article/view/5

The theoretical debate of international security has grown a lot in the latest decades. During several years, the supremacy of the military strategic logic of the Cold War conducted to ice the visions about security, mainly because the nuclear arsenals turn all other security aspects smaller, in superpower our not. Different perspectives begun to appear in the seventies decade, when some authors begun to question the other existing theme as fundamental to security, as economy and environment. Only in the end of the eighties this debate is consolidated, when new perspectives are achieved, as different stages impact in the building of the state which the countries would be met, or in its regional contexts. The post-Cold War brings many changes, first the importance of the economy that becomes to have under military aspects, and after the 11 September 2001 attacks, the return to security as a central factor, but now under the influence of now data, the international terrorism. Key works: International affais; International security; National security; Defence; Terrorism