Reconceptualizing Security: The Economic Dimension of Cyber Security and the Copenhagen School

Session

Law

Description

With the complication of international relations, and the emergence of new security challenges, threats and risks that the international community, states and every human being faced after the Cold War, the traditional approach to the concept of security slowly began to change. Therefore, the traditional concept of security with distinct focus on the state, that is, national security and the military sector, has become too narrow, and a new conceptualization had to be approached. Namely, climate change, the energy crisis, ethnic conflicts, the changing nature of terrorism, pandemics, economic problems, financial crises, threats to the security of information technologies, cybercrime and other threats and risks are no longer isolated events that can be closed within national borders. For these reasons, towards the end of the 20th century, many schools were created that began to deal with new concepts of security. In the beginning this was based on peace studies due to the atmosphere of the Cold War, and later through critical studies and schools. A big mark in the new conceptualization of security was left by theoreticians of the Copenhagen School. The Copenhagen School is based on two important conceptual developments in the study of security: Barry Buzan's ideas on the sectoral analysis of security and Ole Waever's concept of 'securitization'.

It is precisely the main goal of this work is to try to explain the economic dimension of cyber security through the theory of securitization and learning of the Copenhagen School from the aspect of threats and reference objects.

It is considered that 'individual security' is an important reference object that interacts with the economic dimension of cyber security, but also that their political and global importance stems from the connection with other 'vertical' levels of security such as 'international', 'regional' and 'national' security.

Keywords:

Copenhagen School, Economic Security, Cyber Security, Cyber Threats, Securitization

Proceedings Editor

Edmond Hajrizi

ISBN

978-9951-550-50-5

Location

UBT Kampus, Lipjan

Start Date

29-10-2022 12:00 AM

End Date

30-10-2022 12:00 AM

DOI

10.33107/ubt-ic.2022.246

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Reconceptualizing Security: The Economic Dimension of Cyber Security and the Copenhagen School

UBT Kampus, Lipjan

With the complication of international relations, and the emergence of new security challenges, threats and risks that the international community, states and every human being faced after the Cold War, the traditional approach to the concept of security slowly began to change. Therefore, the traditional concept of security with distinct focus on the state, that is, national security and the military sector, has become too narrow, and a new conceptualization had to be approached. Namely, climate change, the energy crisis, ethnic conflicts, the changing nature of terrorism, pandemics, economic problems, financial crises, threats to the security of information technologies, cybercrime and other threats and risks are no longer isolated events that can be closed within national borders. For these reasons, towards the end of the 20th century, many schools were created that began to deal with new concepts of security. In the beginning this was based on peace studies due to the atmosphere of the Cold War, and later through critical studies and schools. A big mark in the new conceptualization of security was left by theoreticians of the Copenhagen School. The Copenhagen School is based on two important conceptual developments in the study of security: Barry Buzan's ideas on the sectoral analysis of security and Ole Waever's concept of 'securitization'.

It is precisely the main goal of this work is to try to explain the economic dimension of cyber security through the theory of securitization and learning of the Copenhagen School from the aspect of threats and reference objects.

It is considered that 'individual security' is an important reference object that interacts with the economic dimension of cyber security, but also that their political and global importance stems from the connection with other 'vertical' levels of security such as 'international', 'regional' and 'national' security.