RT Journal Article
T1 Security and freedom: a complex alliance
A1 De Tienda Palop, Lydia María
A1 Huerta Vega, Jacobo
AB The concepts of security and freedom have long had an antagonistic relationship in the political sphere. Since Plato wrote his Republic, authors such as Machiavelli, Hobbes and subsequent contractarians have understood that some limitations on individual freedom were necessary for the sake of collective security. This paradigm has since been inherited by different thinkers and is key in most political theory proposals. Following this path, Todorov has analyzed the current geostrategic situation as a result of the milestone of the Iraq War of 2003, in order to shed light on strategies that should be pursued to achieve international security of the contemporary new world order. However, his approach follows the conceptual framework of previous authors, which therefore prevents him from integrating the freedom required by contemporary Western democracies with international security. In this article, we intend to provide an alternative perspective, addressing the problem from a multidimensional conceptualization of security and freedom.
PB Institut za Filozofiju i Društvenu Teoriju
SN 2334-8577
SN 0353-5738
YR 2023
FD 2023
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/132415
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/132415
LA eng
NO De Tienda Palop, L. y Vega, H. (2023) «Security and freedom: A complex alliance», Filozofija i drustvo, 34(2), pp. 318-333. Disponible en: https://doi.org/10.2298/FID2302318T
NO This article has received funding from AEOC9/21 (Acciones Especiales de Investigación 2021. Ayudas para la organización de congresos y reuniones científicas UCM) "The Cultural Politics of Trust. Recognition, Institutions, Democracy project".
NO Universidad Complutense de Madrid
DS Docta Complutense
RD 26 feb 2026