Extended security concept
The expanded security concept is a term that has been coined in the field of security policy since the 1980s and a supplement to the classic security concept of the time of the bloc confrontation .
While the military category was in the foreground in the security policy environment until the end of the 1980s , the term security took on several new dimensions due to the dynamic changes in the world, but especially in Europe .
Since the end of the 1990s, there has been a change from the expanded concept of security to a comprehensive concept of security , as the expanded concept of security merely represented an addition to the understanding of achieving security by military means. In the context of the comprehensive security concept, military and civilian means are considered to be of equal importance and are linked to one another.
In contrast to the classic security concept, the comprehensive security concept also takes into account " social , economic , ecological and cultural conditions that can only be influenced in multinational cooperation". This rethinking is mainly due to the increased sensitivity to the threat to the planet and its global impact on its population. The international discussion about the existential meaning of this term gained more and more importance against the background of environmental disasters, misery, hunger and indebtedness in developing countries and the potential dangers of global migration movements .
The term comprehensive security is now an elementary component when it comes to the concept of networked security . This consists of the individual elements: General government security preparedness, multilateral coordination, cooperation between the institutions ( interlocking institutions ) and interdepartmental coordination ( inter-agency ), which you'll notice, for example, in the basic principles of German foreign and security policy, which generally comprehensive, preventive and multilateral.
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literature
- Meier, Ernst-Christoph / Roßmanith, Richard / Schäfer, Heinz-Uwe: Dictionary on Security Policy - Germany in a Changed International Environment, Verlag ES Mittler & Sohn, Hamburg-Berlin-Bonn, 2003, p. 348
- Federal Academy for Security Policy (ed.): Security Policy in New Dimensions. Compendium on the expanded security concept. Hamburg: Mittler 2001. (929 pages)
- Federal Academy for Security Policy (ed.): Security Policy in New Dimensions. Supplementary volume 1. Hamburg: Mittler 2004. (488 pages)
- Saalbach, Klaus-Peter (ed.): Compendium of security policy. Dirk Koentopp Verlag 2010. (366 pages)