OME APPROAC ES TO T E CURRENT INTERNATIONAL SECURITY AGENDA AND T E T EORETICAL INFLUENCE IN ITS CONTENTS

Abstract

International Security, as an specific field of International relations issues, has a solid existence, although their profiles and boundaries are topics that are always discussed in the academic forums. oth, the orthodox visions, strongly fixed to the XVII century post Westphalia models, as well as more flexible views emerged in the last four decades are faced in these debates. he first, ones tac le the world chessboard only with an State centered approach, with interstate relations on military powerI the second ones, that thin they endorse based mainly a higher empiric support, seeing diverse inds of actors, dynamics and issues. Within this context, the objective of this article are to describe some of the most representative aspects of this counterpoint between the classical approaches and the heterodox readings that are not fixed to the Westphalian models, as well as, to review some points of the contemporary agenda of international security, displaying the heterogeneous insights that have being adding during the last decades. or that, first I will describe how the aspect has muted and the enlargement of the limits of this agenda, then set down some effects of this process, ending with some conclusions and trends. rom a methodological point a view, this article presents a deductive approach to the object of this study, evolving from a general focus to more specific levelsI the analysis, therefore, will alternate between both, descriptive and explicative leves, using secondary sources as well as qualitative data.