ECONOMIC SECURITY AND ECONOMIC SECURITY INDEX AS A MEASURE OF ECONOMIC SECURITY

Along with the process of increased mobility of people and resources across national boundaries, the emergence of globalization and the new technological advances, new forms of security also appeared. Economic security, as a blend of economy and security, has recently become a very important dimension of sciences such as economics, social science, and political science. As objective of this paper is to analyse the term economic security through its definition and factors. As a new term economic security is measured by the economic security index. In the paper, the factors that determine economic security index will be set. In order to explain the importance of the security index, economic security indexes worldwide will be shown comparatively. In the conclusion, remarks of the need of economic security and the economic security index will be given.