Professional paper

The Difficulties of Defining the Notion of National Security

Darko Lacković

Abstract

This article describes the reasons for difficulties in defining the concept of national security, which in the public eye still receives a twisted rendition. On the one hand, the reason is an obvious ignorance of the concept -category apparatus, even with the expert public in part, because of which national security is identified with inter­nal security (state security); on the other hand, historical reasons have caused the concept of national security to still be identified with the military aspect of security or national defence. In the stable, regulated world, non -military jeopardies repre­sent a far bigger threat to a state or a society. In any case clearly defined national interests should remain the basis of national security. The system of national security, as a subsystem of the political system, effectively protects national security using different disposable mechanisms.

Keywords

national security; external security; internal security; national defence; national interests; the national security system; safety politics

Hrčak ID:

202698

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/202698

Publication date:

20.12.2000.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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