{"id":7969,"date":"2004-12-15T14:04:14","date_gmt":"2004-12-15T12:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rito.riigikogu.ee\/en\/?p=7969"},"modified":"2016-03-28T10:01:20","modified_gmt":"2016-03-28T07:01:20","slug":"successes-and-failures-in-world-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rito.riigikogu.ee\/en\/previous-issues\/no-10\/successes-and-failures-in-world-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"Successes and failures in world politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">The concept of &#8220;hard&#8221; and &#8220;soft&#8221; security are now part of the past, along with the last century. We are realizing that security is a whole and does not only involve ensuring defense forces readiness but also consists of a country&#8217;s ability to come to grips with the consequences of a natural disaster or an epidemic. To stem violence and chaos, we must expend effort where the threat of failure is greater.<\/p>\n<p>The more we talk of the world&#8217;s divergences, or disparate threats and needs to counter them, the more clear it becomes that instead of concentrating on liquidating them, we need to focus on preventing them &#8211; there are too many failed states in the world that breed hopelessness and violence. Voluntary or forcible isolation is a major factor contributing to failure. Estonia has decisively turned its back on isolationism.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.riigikogu.ee\/rito\/index.php?id=11220\" target=\"_blank\">Full article in Estonian<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The concept of &#8220;hard&#8221; and &#8220;soft&#8221; security are now part of the past, along with the last century. We are realizing that security is a whole and does not only involve ensuring defense forces readiness but also consists of a country&#8217;s ability to come to grips with the consequences of a natural disaster or an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"class_list":["post-7969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-no-10","topic-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rito.riigikogu.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rito.riigikogu.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rito.riigikogu.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rito.riigikogu.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rito.riigikogu.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7969"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rito.riigikogu.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10173,"href":"https:\/\/rito.riigikogu.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7969\/revisions\/10173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rito.riigikogu.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rito.riigikogu.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}