POLS 1301 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Nuclear Terrorism, Realpolitik, Environmental Policy
22 Mar 2017
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Security - the measures taken by states to ensure the safety of their citizens, the protection of their way of life, and the survival of their nation-state. Security can also mean the ownership of property that gives an individual the ability to secure the enjoyment or enforcement of a right or a basic human need. National security - a fundamental value in the foreign policy of states secured by a variety of tools of statecraft, including military actions, diplomacy, economic resources, and international agreements and alliances. It also depends on a stable and productive domestic society. Widening school of international security - sometimes called the copenhagen school, these are authors who extend the definition of security to include economic, political, societal, and environmental policy areas. View of national security as a policy issue. Nations should essential in supporting the primary objective of a state"s national interest; survival. In an anarchic, state- centric system, war is inevitable.
