REVISITING THE SOFT SECURITY DEBATE: FROM EUROPEAN PROGRESS TO AFRICAN CHALLENGES

dc.creator	Francois Vreÿ
dc.date	2011-08-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned	2015-07-20T20:08:53Z
dc.date.available	2015-07-20T20:08:53Z
dc.identifier	10.5787/33-2-9
dc.identifier	2224-0020
dc.identifier	https://doaj.org/article/8909d04e96754ebe95d6d14a1373da47
dc.identifier.uri	http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/8557
dc.identifier.uri	https://doaj.org/article/8909d04e96754ebe95d6d14a1373da47
dc.description	Proponents of soft security strive to ensure the goal of individual security<br />without resorting to armed coercion. Given the extended scope of security sectors<br />falling within the ambit of soft security regional co-operation is indispensable – a<br />phenomenon most visible in European security architecture and that of Northern<br />Europe in particular. Not only European decision-makers, however, pursue the soft<br />security option. As Africa entered the twenty-first century, co-operation and an<br />implicit realisation of the importance of soft security threats increasingly configured<br />its regional security arrangements. A new wave of warfare simultaneously entered<br />the African realm and any security approach had to contend closely with the<br />inhumane profiles of these so-called new wars. Subsequently, African security<br />architecture had to straddle the resultant hard-soft security domains more acutely<br />than that of Europe. This required appropriate military options and the adjustment<br />of African armed forces towards softer security policy instruments. For Africa in<br />particular, the maintenance of a hard divide (even if only conceptually) between<br />hard and soft security as imposed by Northern Europe in particular, remains more<br />declaratory than real.
dc.language	English
dc.publisher	University of Stellenbosch. Faculty of Military Science (Military Academy)
dc.relation	http://scientiamilitaria.journals.ac.za/pub/article/view/9
dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/2224-0020
dc.source	Scientia Militaria : South African Journal of Military Studies, Vol 33, Iss 2 (2011)
dc.subject	Military Science
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dc.subject	DOAJ:Military Science
dc.subject	DOAJ:Technology and Engineering
dc.subject	Military Science
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dc.subject	DOAJ:Military Science
dc.subject	DOAJ:Technology and Engineering
dc.subject	Military Science
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dc.subject	Military Science
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dc.subject	Military Science
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dc.title	REVISITING THE SOFT SECURITY DEBATE: FROM EUROPEAN PROGRESS TO AFRICAN CHALLENGES
dc.type	Article