THEORETICAL APPROACHES IN EXPLAINING SECURITY (INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, HUMAN SECURITY AND ENVIRONMENTAL SECURITY)

Abstract

The idea of security is complex and has achieved popularity with many scientist in the field of political studies, almost throughout the 20th century. The liberalism promoted by Woodrow Wilson, whose culmination we see with the 1938 Munich Agreement, was questioned with the most destructive war that happened on the planet. With the creation of the bipolar order of international relations the understanding of security was mainly through the classic and modern realism, neorealism, structural realism, based on the work of Thucydides, Machiavelli, Morgenthau. However, after the Helsinki Agreement and the creation of the largest regional security organization in the world, as well as according to some authors as Ulrich Beck, Barry Buzan and others, the meaning of the idea of security changed. Namely, security became not only security at the external borders of a country. Security became the security of a person, but also in an ultra-radical sense – security of the environment.