Affiliation:
1. Complutense University of Madrid, Faculty of Philosophy, Department of Philosophy and Society
Abstract
The concepts of security and freedom have long had an antagonistic
relationship in the political sphere. Since Plato wrote his Republic,
authors such as Machiavelli, Hobbes and subsequent contractarians have
understood that some limitations on individual freedom were necessary for
the sake of collective security. This paradigm has since been inherited by
different thinkers and is key in most political theory proposals. Following
this path, Todorov has analyzed the current geostrategic situation as a
result of the milestone of the Iraq War of 2003, in order to shed light on
strategies that should be pursued to achieve international security of the
contemporary new world order. However, his approach follows the conceptual
framework of previous authors, which therefore prevents him from integrating
the freedom required by contemporary Western democracies with international
security. In this article, we intend to provide an alternative perspective,
addressing the problem from a multidimensional conceptualization of security
and freedom.
Publisher
National Library of Serbia
Subject
Sociology and Political Science,Philosophy
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