Slovenian Security System
Course type
Study programme and level
Language
Lectures | Seminar | Tutorial | Druge oblike študija | Individual Work | ECTS |
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Study programme and level | Study field | Academic year | Semester |
II. level | Law | 1/2 | 1/2 |
Course Type
Elective
Lecturer
prof. dr. Andrej Anžič
Language
English
Prerequisites
Fulfillment of requirements to enroll in the 1st year.
Content (Syllabus outline)
- Security theory and security systems:
- Security as a social phenomenon and value.
- System approach to security.
- Security in modern democratic state.
- Evaluating security circumstances in a modern state.
- Civil – security relations.
- Security systems of the Republic of Slovenia:
- Doctrinal and normative-legal starting points.
- Police in the systemic provision of security.
- Covered police measures and ways of control and miscontrol thereof.
- Slovenia and European security integrations:
- Global and international security.
- Security dependence of national security.
- Global security challenges: international terrorism, trafficking with humans, arms, and drugs.
- Illegal migrations as humanitarian, social, legal and also security problems.
- The significance of the Interpol, Europol, NATO security service, human rights, and the significance of national and European legal regulations for lawful and ethical conduct by police.
Students learn about the fact that security is an inevitable component of contemporary social relations, which significantly or even fatally influences the development and existence of individuals, groups and society, as well as all their spiritual and material values. The conscious effort to establish a state of security is a civilization and cultural category covering all aspects of security.
Furthermore, students learn about some of the features that prevented the quicker assertion of the concept of security in the past: the concept of security was intertwined with the concept of power (although the power becomes the essence of security only in extreme and conflict situations); strategic studies have replaced the concept of security; the unclear concept of security suits the political elites in exercising their partial interests, also by referring to the needs of national security.
Students get to understand the need for a three-level approach to the concept of security: individual security, the security of a group and society, and the international security system. Furthermore, they become acquainted with the contradictions and dilemmas in the application of theoretical models in practice.
Students also acquire the ability to perceive and recognize different sources of threats and the possibility to create the concept of systemic protection. They learn about the essential components of the civil-security relations of modern society. With the content discussed, students develop the ability to assess security as a value with different meanings, dimensions and consequences.
Study Literature
- Buzzan, People, States, and Fear: the National Security Problem in International Relations, University of North Carolina Press, 1983.
- Buzzan, People, States and Fear: An Agenda for International Security Studies in the Post-Cold War Era, ECPR Press, 2007.
- Norgan, M. Taylor, The Making of a Terrorist; Jane’s Intelligence Review, 2001.
- Meško (ed.), Corruption in Central and Eastern Europe at the Turn of Millenium, Božnar & Partners, Open Society Institute, Ljubljana 2000.
- M. Pagon (ed.), Policing in Central and Eastern Europe: Organisational Managerial and Human Resource Aspects; College of Police and Security Studies, Ljubljana 1998.
Objectives and competences