Traditional security threats
In the traditional understanding of the security of the state, the threat to the security system was pure of a military nature. However, the modern concept of security sees other endangering factors than military ones.
Security today represent a great challenge for the state. Challenges, risks, and threats to security are extremely complex and, depending on intensity, they can be manifested at the national, regional and global level. The danger of armed aggression has been significantly reduced globally, due to the development of society itself, globalization and the capital flow. However, we are witnessing the constant emergence of new armed conflicts, which generally have a national or possibly regional character. Armed conflicts can arise as a result of the escalation of terrorism and also, border, territorial and other disputes between states.
Military conflicts have become an enormous source of capital for powerful states, as well as a „range“ for demonstrating power. There are many security challenges to the state in the XXI century. Terrorism is one of the greatest threats to the global, regional and national security. Also, for the country and the threats to its security, there is a significant link between all forms of national-organized, transnational and cross-border crime. The proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, according to the logic, should pose a potentially biggest threat to regional and global security, as the party that has a power to use those weapons, whether is it a state or non-state party, will have an advantage in the negotiations of any kinds. However, smaller conflicts at national and regional levels that are happening constantly are currently getting more damage than WMD even though the logic says that the bigger threat is the threat of WMD.
What are the armed conflict threats?
The armed conflict threats are the threats of massive use of conventional weapons and weapons of mass destruction that can endanger the security of the state and its population. These threats we can divide to the threats that come from outside of the state like armed aggression, armed intervention, and armed pressures, as well as threats that come from inside the country like armed rebellion and civil war.
The military threats that come outside of the country are mainly directed by the great powers towards small states under the auspices of democracy, humanitarian law and the protection of the population of the country X from the will of the dictator. But the truth is more complicated than that. US diplomat Henry Kissinger once said: ” civil conflicts are viewed internationally through prisms of democratic or sectarian concerns. Outside powers demand that the incumbent government negotiate with its opponents for the purpose of transferring power. But because, for both sides, the issue is generally survival, these appeals usually fall on deaf ears. Where the parties are of comparable strength, some degree of outside intervention, including military force, is then invoked to break the deadlock.” (see the whole article here)
