Analysis
Politics
Unlocked
Fico’s Government Of Revenge and Revision
30 November 2023
Politics and policies regarding defence and security still think about the world too much in terms of their own agenda, rather than taking a comprehensive approach. We have to change how we think about and how we “do” our security and defence systems.
The ongoing COVID19 pandemic should be seen as a great window of opportunity to step out of our routine way of thinking. Now, before the shock is absorbed, it is a good time to search for different perspectives.
This text advocates for a holistic point of view and a comprehensive approach when it comes to security and defence. While there is nothing especially new nor revolutionary about this, it not reflected in our polities, politics and policies.
In order not to sink into theoretical arguments, let us pinpoint several real-world examples of how desperately we need to rethink our traditional sectoral perception of security. More importantly, we should abandon so-called institutional myopia, by which the author means the tendency for a one-sided self-perception of a particular institution as being the only relevant and overemphasising the importance of its agenda.