Specialists of the University investigate threats to global security and their impact on fundamental rights

The work has been jointly developed with members of the Institute of Strategic Studies and researchers from other universities and was recently presented at the headquarters of the Institute of Strategic Studies (Madrid). José Luis González Cussac, Professor of Criminal Law, participated in the preparation on behalf of the Faculty of Law; Rosario Serra Cristóbal and Fernando Flores Giménez, professors of Constitutional Law; and Elena Górriz Royo, professor of Criminal Law.

The work, led by Professors González and Flores, starts from the need to approach the issue holistically, and that we can only speak properly of comprehensive security if we consider the impact that the responses may have on the constitutional order and the fundamental rights. The methodology used highlights the need for constant conversation among specialists in all fields, essential in a multidimensional and changing world such as the threats to security in the 21^st century.

The developed project (DER2015-65288-R, MINECO/FEDER) presents a methodology to approach security and defence without losing the guarantee of rights and freedoms, fundamental factors of legitimacy that, because it belongs to the acquis of any democratic State, they cannot be ignored and whose restriction must be the object of special caution and study.

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Presentation of the monograph in the Higher Center for National Defence Studies (CESEDEN). From left to right: Rosario Serra, Jose Luis Gonzalez Cussac, Fernando Flores, Elena Górriz, Alicia Cebada Romero (Carlos III University of Madrid) and General Miguel Ángel Ballesteros, operational director of National Security.