Today, the emergence of cyberspace and advancement of globalization
caused not only the transformation of our productive and conventional life but
also the revolutionary transition of use of destructive violence such as crime
and warfare. This transition of environmental condition connects various
security threats which separatedly existed in individual, local, national, and
global levels in the past, and transformed the mechanical sum of all levels
of security threats into the organic sum of multi-dimensional security threats.
This article proposes that the sum of multi-dimensional security threats is
caused by the interconnectivity of various different levels of security threats
and the integrated interdisciplinary perspective is essential to properly
understand the fundamental existence of today's security problem and the
reality of fear that we face today. The holistic security, the concept proposed
here, is to suggest the mode of networked response to multi-dimensional
security threats. The holistic security is suggested to overcome the
conventional divisional approach based on the principle of "division of labor"
and bureaucratic principles, which means more concretely that national
security and criminal justice are divided and intelligence, military, police,
prosecution, fire-fighting, private security, and etc. are strictly separated into
its own expertise and turf.
Also, this article introduces integrated security approaches tried by international organization and major countries overseas with the respect of the
holistic security. The author have spent some substantial experience of
participant observation, meetings, seminar, conference, and expert interviews
regarding the issues discussed in the article in various countries including the
United States, Russia, Austria, Germany, Canada, Mexico, Israel, and
Uzbekistan for the last ten years. Intelligence and information on various levels
of security threats and security approaches introduced in this paper is obtained
from such opportunities.