This article analyzes national security, an imported and indeterminate notion, that grants the armed forces an inappropriate autonomy and allows them, constitutionally and legally, to perform non-professional roles in the internal order and other activities. This notion was installed in codes and legal bodies of diverse nature that potentially bind the Armed Forces. with issues unrelated to national defense. Expanded security, derived from this notion and from a poorly understood military versatility, strengthens military inclusion in police tasks. It is a significant conservative vacuum that favors the concentration of power and the ideological and political dispositions of the right. This notion has no legitimate space in a new Constitution and must be eliminated from all legal, doctrinal and regulatory bodies.
Keywords:
national security, armed forces, Constitution, institutions, domestic order
Varas, A. (2020). NATIONAL SECURITY: AN EMPTY SIGNIFIER. Política. Revista De Ciencia Política, 58(1), 29–56. https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-5338.2020.61561
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