Author(s): Valentin STOIAN
Publication name: Romanian Intelligence Studies Review
Publisher name: Mihai Viteazul National Intelligence Academy
Publication type: Journal article
Publication date: June 30, 2020
Pagination:
Issue/ Volume: 23/2020
DOI:
Abstract
Transferring ideas, either from one country to another or between different
professional environments, can lead, many times, to the erroneous reception of the
theoretical and empirical implications of not only certain premises, but of entire schools
of thought. Unfortunately, this is the case of the way the Copenhagen school was adapted
and internalized in the Romanian military-academic environment.
The article aims to lay the groundwork for the rectification of errors generated
by the way the Copenhagen school was adopted in Romania. It plans to overcome the
simple idea that the Copenhagen school represented just an expansion of the concept of
“security” and to unearth the ontological premises, the evolution of theoretical thought,
as well as the implicit and explicit normative implications of the Copenhagen school. The
article’s main aim is to show that the initial theories of the founders of the Copenhagen
school, as well as their further developments, are not adequate to being used in a
military-academic environment and that the attempts to use them rely on a fragmentary
and disparate adoption of some ideas. The central ideas of this school are more relevant
for the civilian academic environment, especially political science, which treats the idea
of “democracy” as a fundamental concept and explores the way to reach the desirable
political regime.
Keywords: Copenhagen school, Romanian military-academic environment,
theoretical thought.
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