CIAO DATE: 04/05

Responding to Post Cold War Security Challenges: Conceptualising Security Sector Reform

Abstract

War era have brought about a variety of pressing reasons for engaging in security related reforms. The inherent needs oscillate between mere adjustments of traditional concepts and force structures to today's quite different security requirements, on the one end, and comprehensive political reorientation and transformation, including the establishment of entire new national and regional security architectures, on the other.

These reform steps cannot be pursued in isolation. The new phenomena and security challenges are global in nature. Their expressions are blurring the traditional distinction between external and internal threats. The terrorist attacks of 11 September have turned security into a primary collective concern for all states. Thus the responses must be global, too; generating cooperation rather than rivalry among powers and other actors.

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