Threatology in schools and security theories

Author

PhD in National Security University of Supreme National Defense.

Abstract

Due to the importance of threats and the inverse relationship with security, this is the concern of all security schools, and each of them has presented a special style in accordance with their worldview and ideology for the autopsy of threats. Variables affecting security are affected by threats and a wide range of security actions and reactions. This research, with a descriptive-analytical method, aims to investigate the most important approaches of security schools based on their epistemologies. The results of this research show that all security schools and approaches deal with the issue of threats, 1. From the perspective of the central or marginal role of threats to national security, which in the realist and Copenhagen schools, as well as realist theories and threat balance, the role-oriented threat in security Nationality of those countries and in the theory of constructivists and soft power, the threat is on the sidelines. 2. The threat level is also referred to as systemic or regional threats in some approaches. However, in some theories, more emphasis has been placed on the social or internal levels of threat. 3. Measuring the threat, in some schools, it is measurable and some consider it a product of mental processing of elites. 4. Objectives of threats, two serious opinions are presented, some of them use it to create fear in the other party in order to force them to do something or prevent them from doing an activity, while others use it to deceive and force the actor to do a certain activity, but with They know satisfaction and persuasion.

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