Original scientific paper

STATES AND INTERNATIONAL SECURITY

Vlatko Cvrtila ; Faculty of Political Science, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

Abstract

After World War Two there have been opposing views of the role and the importance of the state in international affairs. Some think that the importance of the state is slowly decreasing, since the increasing interdependence of the world has an enormous influence on internal and foreign policies of a state. On the other hand, some point out that the state has not lost any of its importance and that, on the contrary, this importance will only be enhanced since the world community has not as yet come up with a model by which to replace sovereign state entities. States generate the structure which has a significant influence on individual and group security. This particularly applies to the post-cold-war period since the problems and the threats of the present-day world - economic collapse, political oppression, poverty, ethnical conflicts, uncontrolled population boom, nature degradation, terrorism, crime and diseases - directly affect many other elements of security. It is these very problems that turn our attention to the state as the most important institution of the present day world which still has at its disposal the resources for reducing or eliminating these threats.

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Hrčak ID:

105668

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/105668

Publication date:

18.11.1997.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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