Conceptual Problems of Security – 20-21st Centuries (2011)
In recent decades, security has become a widely used concept, even a fashion word, a self who understands what this term and concept is. Today, practitioners and theorists, including realists, neorealists, neoliberals, neo-socialists, neo-constructivists, and postmodernists, are debating security. Regardless of the specific content of the discussions, it is clear that the dominant military approach to security from the Cold War times has now led to a new recognition of security as a major threat and consequently a very important area, topic or problem. That’s how ordinary people, scientists, politicians, etc. think. In essence, it is ontological security, a priori an argument where security is widely unambiguous, an important phenomenon.
Having visited nearly 50 countries, it is interesting to analyze what is happening in the current world, in different countries, especially in those where I have been.
Over the years I have supervised hundreds of bachelor’s theses; as well as master theses and have been reviewer for Doctoral Thesis. The main topics have been international conflicts and security, specifically the issues related to North Korea, the Middle East conflict, NATO perspectives, but also Estonia’s (as a small border state of the European Union) relations with Russia. Many of my former students are currently working all over the world, in governments, international organizations; and two of them have been Estonian cabinet ministers.
