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International security from the standpoint of national security strategies

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  • Andrés Dockendorff Universidad de Santiago de Chile
  • Tomás Duval Universidad Central de Chile
Vol. 45 No. 176 (2013): Septiembre - Diciembre
https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-3769.2013.29991

Abstract

This paper aims at comparing National Security Strategies or Defense Strategies in 9 countries: Australia, Brazil, France, Chile, United States, United Kingdom, Netherlands Spain and Canada. It focuses on the main analytical and political implications of these documents. In order to examine the security agenda in the post-Cold Ear period we use Buzan, Waever and de Wilde's security sectors theory. The study also explores three central questions for the analysis of the evolution of international security: which is the referent object of national security? What are the consequences of including external as well as internal threats in the security agenda? The third question is whether to expand security beyond the use of military force. We conclude that the strategies implement a broader security concept. As proposed by those in favour of widening and deepening security, national security today is related to a wide range of threats, mainly transnational. The above does not cancel out the importance of the traditional dimension of security and the military sector. Rather, as the paper concludes, traditional threats coexist with new ones. Meanwhile, the inclusion of conomic, environmental and societal factors in the security analysis could «overstretch» the conceptualization of security.

Keywords:

security and defense, transnational threats, public policies, international security, national security

Author Biographies

Andrés Dockendorff, Universidad de Santiago de Chile

 

Investigador Programa de Estudios de Gobierno, Universidad de Santiago de Chile (USACH). Magíster en Ciencia Política Universidad de Chile. Egresado de la Universidad Nacional de la Defensa, Washington DC. Docente de la Academia Nacional de Estudios Políticos y Estratégicos.

Tomás Duval, Universidad Central de Chile

 

Profesor Universidad Central (UCEN). Magíster en Ciencia Política Universidad de Chile. Miembro de la Comisión de Relaciones Exteriores y Defensa Instituto Libertad.

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Dockendorff, A., & Duval, T. (2013). International security from the standpoint of national security strategies. Estudios Internacionales, 45(176), 31–49. https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-3769.2013.29991
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