Security-Welfare Dilemma From Strategic Management Perspective: Albanian Case

Abstract

Relations between security expenditures and welfare is a frequently questioned and discussed subject. However, the subject has not been discussed from a strategic management perspective. The common perception is that there is and there must be a balance between two expenditures and increasing one of these effects the other in opposite direction. As it is called a security-welfare dilemma, the aim of this paper is to focus on this dilemma in the Albanian case, and indicate solutions with the aid of strategic management. The selected Albania case is a concrete and recognized example demonstrating Balkan differentialism. An attempt is made to answer to question: “What if Albania implemented a reasonable and balanced policy of these two expenditures?” The results demonstrate that as a unique example (a part of Balkans but always have different results), Albania is generally on the opposite edges of these expenditures and has not a balance between two that is showing lack of strategic management perspective.