La seguridad nacional en México

Entre legitimidad y violencia de Estado

Abstract

national security policy is a key point in the permanence of governments and continuity of states, because it is through the articulation and instrumentalization of this that it is feasible, on the one hand, to structure a legal body and, on the other hand, a discursive apparatus that provides an ideological support. The speech on the legitimate use of violence to preserve the stability and survival of the State, not only is it still valid, each time it secures itself thanks to the legal framework that legalizes its domination to protect its political stability and claim that what it does is safeguard the lives of individuals. Starting from the assumption that the State is an organization at the service of social needs, then the institutional framework should be oriented to the demands of society; However, in the Law of Internal Security, the elements that go against this idea can be visualized: the establishment of a State of exception, and the right to life and death. Therefore, the objective of this article is to demonstrate the existing relationship between sovereignty and the power that the State has to establish National Security policies and to establish the mechanisms that legitimize the Internal Security Law.