The Concept of security and the Viability of Global Governance

Abstract

The concept of security incorporates within its meaning, at the same time, political, social and cultural connotations, and essentially entails a certain malleability that may, at times, escape any aim for legal structure. Without a doubt, no contemporary theory of international law, no international relations approach, and no political or humanistic discourse can currently avoid it, regardless of the angle according to which it is dealt with. As to the notion of governance, it has been described as the sum of the many ways individuals and institutions, public and private, manage their common affairs through a dynamic and complex process of interactive decision-making. When attempting to encompass both ideas, that is, if the question about governance (on a global scale) is indeed pertinent or even possible security wise, the fact is that working with probabilities –as security requires it-, and trying to organize them and build them into a plan, certainly makes mandatory to question if that response to different sets of circumstances is structured according to a process of interactive decision-making –as mentioned before-, in the search for the encompassment of the majority of subjects of international law is merely logical, which is the aim of this paper.