POLI 360 Study Guide - Final Guide: Wage War, Defence Diplomacy, Procrastination

• School: McGill University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLI 360
• Professor: T.V.Paul

Document Summary

The protection of national territory, people, and assets from external threat. It can contribute to the security dilemma (nations try to secure themselves, which threatens other nations, who in turn increase their arms, etc. : argument: if a state is internally insecure, then that threatens internal securities. National state vs trading state: national security state(cid:497) (cid:515)garrison state(cid:516)(cid:497) north korea, pakistan, These states view becoming secure as equivalent to protection, usually by means of arms (military) investment. Usually excessive and states can overlook the people"s need bc money is going to arms. Sometimes form due to failure of democracy: trading states. Pay more attention to their economic improvement than military. Anarchy imposes three major conditions on concept of intl security: states are principle object of security (because they are sovereign, security cannot depend on harmony or hegemony, dynamics of national security are relational and interdependent between states.