Bezpieczeństwo międzynarodowe w pierwszej dekadzie XXI wieku w kontekście nowych wyzwań i zagrożeń

• Authors: Zięba Ryszard

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International security in the first decade of the 21st century in the context of new chalienges and threats

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

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International security is a complex of international conditions, norms, and mechanisms and impacts that ensure every state of a given international system region a greater or lesser certainty of unendangered existence, continuation, and freedom of development. International security covers not only, or at least not primarily, the existential values of individual states but also the values that are shared within a given system: stability, peace, balance, and cooperation to mention a few. It is the policy of security conducted by the State, and the entirety of international relationships and institutions that are decisive for their protection. The objective of activities furthering international security is the elimination of threats to the existenće, continuation, and the development of states and international systems as well as reinforcement of the sanctity of these high-level associations. In the wake of the Cold War, new types of risks appeared and pose a threat to international security and challenge to the security policy of states and international institutions. Still present at the threshold of the 2lst century are military threats born from conventional and nuclear arms race, nationalisms and ethnic conflicts, terrorism, transnational organized crime, and environmental threats. Internal instability of numerous states (the so-called failed states), vast economic disproportions between highly developed countries and the rest of the World in the conditions of fast globalization, and increased international migrations into EU countries and the USA are believed to be the main challenges. The changing international order and new types of risks. The need to broadened the scope of the means used in security policy. Generally, the importance of military and force solutions is relatively giving way to means of civil naturę. Early in the 21st century, the following tendencies appeared or developed in the evolution of international security: a) most states began to prefer cooperative methods of reinforcing own security, and parallel to that of national security, b) there is a peculiar internationalization and multilateralization of states’ activities furthering security, c) globalization, and divisibility and regionalization of international security, on the other hand, d) increased intcrest of international organizations (other than UN, and including integrative and military alliances) in acquiring competences characteristic of collective security organizations, e) a division of tasks between the United Nations and regional organizations is visible, at times peace operations are conducted jointly.

• Publisher: Krakowska Akademia im. Andrzeja Frycza Modrzewskiego
• Journal: Krakowskie Studia Międzynarodowe
• Year: 2007
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 33-47

Contributors

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Zięba Ryszard

• Uniwersytet Warszawski