Acta Universitatis Danubius. Relationes Internationales, Vol 3, No 1 (2010)

Abstract

As objective, we propose to show ways in which the globalization affects/jeopardizes the security space. We will also give an answer to the question on how to anticipate and keep under control certain undesirable events, which in a specified time, would represent a potential threat to national or international security. About globalization, as a contemporary phenomenon, it has been written and talked a lot because under the current security environment there are more conspicuous the manifestations of some factors that influence it. Within just two decades, “world order” has undergone considerable changes. We know who are those who win from globalization and those who lose because globalization? The gain could be that by extending this process, the barriers and limitations of rights of movement between countries and continents disappear. Losses due to globalization: massive increases in serious diseases, lack of controls between countries and continents have caused the high level of international crime; the existence of global terrorism risk; vulnerability of security environment. Therefore we consider that we need focus on how the new challenges arising from globalization tend to crystallize in the international security environment in general and in Romania in particular.