Security, Contribution by the Copenhagen School

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Rui Pedro Reis

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Security is something that is part of the discursive lexicon, however it is not always an easy topic to approach and conceptualize. The aim of this essay is to reflect on the contribution of the Copenhagen School to the concept of security. We resorted to a narrative review of the literature, exposing a constructivist approach to the way in which security is faced.We focus on what is und erstood as security for the Copenhagen School, its epistemological approach, the basic idea of ​​security as well as the analysis tools that its precursors forged. We intend to present the main contents of this school and name the essential elements for this theoretical current that has the speech act as a precursor. We intend to assess what is understood as a security concept for the Copenhagen School, going beyond the traditional - military. In this sequence, we develop an approach of the concepts proposed by this in international security in the approach to regional security complexes. The proposition that seeks in the theory of securitization allied to the concept of security in an expansion to other sectors, conceiving it beyond the traditional military, encompassing the political, economic, social and environmental sectors. Also more recent is the proposal of sectorization to the cybernetic field.

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Security, Contribution by the Copenhagen School. Brazilian Journal of Police Sciences, Brasília, Brasil, v. 13, n. 9, p. 265–287, 2022. DOI: 10.31412/rbcp.v13i9.898. Disponível em: https://periodicos.pf.gov.br/index.php/RBCP/article/view/898. Acesso em: 6 sept. 2026.

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