Author(s): Florian COLDEA
Publication name: Romanian Intelligence Studies Review
Publisher name: Mihai Viteazul National Intelligence Academy
Publication type: Journal article
Publication date: June 30, 2021
Pagination:
Issue/ Volume: 25/2021
DOI:
Abstract:
The paper examines the COVID-19 crisis and its intersections with national
security, through the lens of its impact and consequences, as well as of what the security
sector can do to alleviate it and how it should treat the remaining concerns. As a former
intelligence practitioner, I was particularly interested in an empirical approach to how
states and international organizations prioritized the health crisis, when faced with a
difficult international security situation, too, whereas tension escalation tended to be, at
least for a while, muted, but not erased by COVID.
Keywords: security, securitization, extended security, cooperation,
prioritization.
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