http://revista.ieee.es/index.php/ieee 252 Journal of the Spanish Institute for Strategic Studies Núm. 8 / 2016 threats to certain values, the latter quality being one that we may deem essential to its definition. Despite attempts to achieve a satisfactory formulation to describe it, the idea of security is poorly conceptualised, perhaps because of the abstract and adaptable nature of its objective. This paradoxically transforms it into an “attractive and invit-ing” 88 idea, as well as “politically powerful»89 one. This is why “the security paradigm shift”90 and its key title role in recent years has made it the prevailing perspective from which to work. The term security has increasingly acquired a polysemic meaning, since it is now seen alongside various adjectives given coverage due to the international context: eco-logical, food, health, energy, economic, information security etc.91. There have been a series of changes to the global outlook that result in new conceptual frameworks with a view to better understanding the emergence of real and potential dangers -”interna-tional terrorism, dysfunctional consequences of globalisation, an exacerbation of iden-tity crises, the reinstatement of the principle of humanitarian intervention, etc.”92-. These risks and threats stem from not only the attacks of other states, but also from other groups or individuals who are able to undermine security structures and terror-ise a population, which is what Didier Bigo called “capillarisation of violence”93. Thus, the idea of security as centred on the state and its military instrument is unsuitable or, rather, not sufficiently broad and versatile to cope with these new realities, in which it is not so straightforward to draw a distinction between “civilian and military, exterior and interior”94. These realities can be included within the five factors of “the security of human collectives” described by Barry Buzan -political, military, social, economic put forward, we refer the reader to the compilation put together by Barry Buzan and Javier Jordán. MOLIN-ER, Juan, «Política de Defensa de España ante amenaza terrorismo yihadista», Revista de Estudios en Seguridad Internacional, Vol. 1 No. 1, Summer 2015, p. 2; BUZAN, Barry, «People, States & Fear: An Agenda for Interna-tional Security Studies in the Post-Cold War Era», Revista Académica de Relaciones Internacionales, no. 9, 2008; JORDÁN, Javier, «¿Por qué los estudios de seguridad son objeto de interés para la ciencia política?» Grupo de Estudios En Seguridad Internacional, Análisis GESI 3/2015, 2015, available online (consulted 24 February 2015): http://www.seguridadinternacional.es/?q=es/content/%C2%BFpor-qu%C3%A9-los-estudios-de-seguri-dad- son-objeto-de-inter%C3%A9s-de-la-ciencia-pol%C3%ADtica(2015). 88 QUERO, op. ci., p. 25. 89 BUZAN, op. cit. 2008, p. 5. 90 BLANCO, op. cit., p. 3. 91 ROLDÁN, Javier, «La política exterior española de seguridad y defensa. La vertiente exterior de las Fuerzas Armadas» in Javier Roldán Barbero, coord., La nueva política de seguridad de la Unión Europea. Granada: Uni-versity of Granada-Mando de Adiestramiento y Doctrina, 2012, p. 189. 92 LÓPEZ MORA, op. cit., p. 94. 93 BIGO, Didier, «Guerres, Conflits, Trasnational et Territoire (Parte 1)», Cultures & Conflits, no. 21-22, 1996, p. 6. 94 LABORIE, Mario, «La Evolución Del Concepto de Seguridad», Spanish Institute for Strategic Studies, Framework Document 05/2011, 2011, p. 3. Available online (consulted 13 April 2015): http://www.ieee.es/Galerias/fichero/docs_marco/2011/DIEEEM05-2011EvolucionConceptoSeguridad.pdf
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