Deconstructing security.

The last decade of the 20th century was marked by a process that continues today, consisting in the diffusion of the discourse about security in all the spheres of everyday life. The theoretical impetus of this phenomenon (also called "securitization") was given by the Copenhagen school, but it slowly penetrated the political discourse, and even the policies of States. We will try to understand what this emphasis on the security problematique means and how it can be interpreted, or read. The method we will use is Derrida's "double reading", where in the first reading, we will present the issue of security as it is tackled nowadays in the international scholarship and policy-making environment, while in the second reading we will try to deconstruct the evolution of the discourse about security. This helps us understand the consequences of the evolution "security" for the relation between the international community and the State, on the one hand, and between the State and its citizens, on the other hand. After examining the meaning of the constructed dichotomy between liberty and security, we will argue that the inflation of the security discourse has resulted into a quasi permanent state of exception (Carl Schmitt) invoked by the State in order to consolidate its sovereignty, which is more and more threatened by the globalization processes. Thus, the security discourse is an instrument of the political power which is re-producing its society, threatened by the porousness of borders, migration, and evolving international interventionism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]