Ecological Security – Liaison of International Cooperation

Traditional relationships of interdependence in economic and military fields are nowadays expanding upon ecological domain. Unlike military security, ecology facilitates more reliable cooperation relations between countries. In that way there have been made a number of alliances and treaties designed to ensure cleaner air, sources of drinking water, avoidance of dangers created by toxic and radioactive residues and protection and maintenance of soil upper fertile strata. National states have stopped to determine their own fate completely by themselves. Ecological interdependence requires a new way of thinking. An unpleasant „discovery” was that of the fact that degradation and pollution of the natural environment do not respect any border drawn by man. There is an acute need of adopting new smart strategies in this field. Ecologic alliances – established between countries who wish to fight against the deterioration of natural environment – could bring together countries with similar ecosystems, countries far away in a geographical sense but confronting with similar large-scale environmental problems, as well as political, ideological or military competing countries who have no other common interest but to avoid ecological catastrophes.