POLITICAL CORRUPTION AS A NATIONAL SECURITY THREAT: THEORETICAL APPROACHES OF COPENHAGEN SCHOOL

Pokretačko pitanje ovoga članka je postoje li pretpostavke da se političkoj korupciji odredi status prijetnje nacionalnoj sigurnosti, jer takav bi status značio davanje prioriteta i najozbiljniju posvećenost rješavanju ovoga problema. Ipak, nije svaka negativna društvena pojava ujedno i prijetnja nacionalnoj sigurnosti pa valja imati određene kriterije u toj procjeni. Teorijski okvir s kriterijima za određivanje stvarnih sigurnosnih prijetnji na razini države preuzet je iz učenja Kopenhaške škole, teorije proizašle iz područja suvremenih sigurnosnih studija. Sigurnosna se analiza utjecaja korupcije pritom promatra u pet zasebnih sektora (vojni, politički, ekonomski, socijetalni i ekološki). Pokazuje se da, prema kriterijima Kopenhaške škole, politička korupcija ugrožava nacionalnu sigurnost i da zadovoljava preduvjete za određivanje sigurnosnog značaja (ili, drugim riječima, za sekuritizaciju).Are there preconditions for declaring status of national security threat for political corruption is the main question of this article. Because a status of this kind would mean giving the top priority and the outmost dedication to efforts for dealing with this problem. However, not every negative social phenomenon is also a security threat, and to make that distinction certain criteria is needed. Theoretical framework with criteria for determining real security threats on the state level is provided from the learnings of Copenhagen school, which is a theory coming out of the field of contemporary security studies. Security analysis is therefore observed in five distinguished sectors (military, political, economic, societal and environmental). It is shown that, by the Copenhagen school criteria, political corruption endangers national security and therefore satisfies preconditions for declaring a security notion (or, in other words, for securitization)