Security Strategies: tools to fight for more Liberty and Security world. A view from Spain

Authors

  • Joan Lluís Pérez-Francesch
  • Tomás Gil Márquez Grupo de investigación sobre Libertad, Seguridad y Transformaciones del Estado, Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona

Abstract

State structures should adapt to today's globalized world. Supranational
cooperation and support between states are essential to address all threats
to liberty and security of individuals, organizations and states themselves.
Besides, the concepts of global security and human security reflect the necessity
of an exhaustive treatment of such threats. The attacks of 9/11 initiated
a collective imagination in which the fight against global insecurity
sometimes becomes an obsession. In this scenario, we propose that it cannot
be forgotten the primacy of the principles that have inspired the Rule of Law
as a product of civilization, which is unavoidable, unless we fall into the defense
of barbarism to fight the same barbarism. Also, insecurity is presented
today as a diffuse threat, which may have originated far from state borders,
being actually a transnational reality. The “security strategies” serve to
this purpose, which are analyzed in this work

Author Biography

  • Joan Lluís Pérez-Francesch
    Profesor de Derecho Constitucional. Catedrático acreditado. Departamento de Ciència Política y Derecho Püblico. Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona (España)

Published

2015-08-19

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Section

Research Articles