International Security Through Further Modernity: A Theoretical Approach to Inland and Maritime Security

Abstract

By taking into account, the rising international terrorism, piracy and terror acts in international seas; this paper focuses on the relationship of modernity and international security, utilising a political theory approach. Its main argument is that the international security can be strengthened by further developing the project of modernity. Therefore, it suggests a Habermasian liberal-social synthesis form for global governance, where the idealist International Relations theory is at the heart of the model. To this end, it first analyses the modern nation-state experience as its political institutions has been highly successful in providing security (and also attaining legitimacy) by means of such an understanding; albeit at the national level. Subsequently, it examines the feasibility of a global governance model for the lands and the seas of the world, which follows the footsteps of the nation-states.