Rethinking Security

in the 21 Century
st
A Reader by Edwin Daniel Jacob
Hello!
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Explaining Security
Security
● state of being free from danger/threat
● Terrorism: threat that never becomes eradicated
● Ideology: the notion of false consciousness
● fear is always a fundamental problem

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Who defines National Security
● Why it cannot be the Citizenry?
● The Media?
● the Policy Makers… Powerful
● Interest groups (the Zionists) Economical
Domestic
&
special Ideology
interests

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Facing & Fighting Threats

Let’s start with the first set of slides
States & Local Governments

Posse
Department
Comitatus of Defense
Act (US)

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Cosmopolitan Visions
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Fostering Global Security
● The Bush Doctrine
○ Foreign policy principles
○ secure itself against countries that harbor or give aid
to terrorist groups

○ Pre-emption, Act alone and Extend freedom

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Emergent Threats
Human Mobility and Security
● move in order to
remain/become secure
● Open borders means
risking own people
○ Terrorists
○ Criminals
○ Economic Migrants

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Ecological Security

● Environmental decay
● Resource scarcity and overpopulation
● Adverse effects of Climate change
● devastating effect of modern industrialization

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Modern Modes of Warfare:
The Case of Drones
● Violation of sovereignty and territorial integrity
● Compliance with International Laws

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Duties to Defend: Ethical
Challenges of Cyber-Defense
● jus ad bellum | jus in bello
● Just cause
○ Limited to cyber-domain
○ No “real” damage
War Theory Principles
● Last Resort
● Just Cause
● Legitimate Authority
● Probability of Success
● Right Intension
● Proportionality
● Civilian Casualties
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Rethinking Security?
Fear Threats

ISIS

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Think of security as an imaginary wall.

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Thanks!
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