Concepts like environmental security, cultural security-or societal
security are attracting the interest of scientists and of the
public and policy-makers. Such security problems can be solved by
means of international cooperation. Not just by means of mutual
assistance among countries, but by international standards and
norms, by world watcher agencies, by global strategies and the use
of huge amounts of material and financial resources. All this
requires action by international institutions. Means and solutions
worked out at the state level have small and temporary efficacy.
This is also true of an area of security closely associated with
the fundamental rights of the individual. Usually referred to as
public or internal security, it concerns the protection of individuals
and people from crime and violations of law. A particular function
of the state, public security - as almost all social and human affairs
- has changed, today, due to the acceleration of the globalisation
process which has almost overtaken the traditional sovereignty of
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