Wk 1 - Intro

Question 1

Traditional/national security is…

Answer 1

State as referent
Primacy of sovereignty
Protection of territory from other states
Through military means

Question 2

Factors of security (x3)

Answer 2

Referents? For whom – individuals, groups, nation, state, region, world
Instruments? By what means – military, nuclear, political, diplomatic, economic, cultural
Costs? What price – economic/social/political

Question 3

The assumptions of national security… (x4)

Answer 3

Uncontested identity
Govt/regime serving state interests – not self-enrichment
State has capacity to govern/monopolise legitimate force
State seen as legitimate

Question 4

Issues for/factors that are causing changes to concept of state security… (x5)

Answer 4

Changing nature of conflict: 43-54 million non-combatant deaths in 20th C, battle deaths declining
State as threat: 262 million murdered by own govt
New emphasis on HR and intervention (R2P)
And on human development
Globalisation spreading transnational dangers

Question 5

What distinguishes HS from state security? (x3)

Making it stretch security concept… (x2)

Answer 5

Individual as focus
Protection from the state (not by it), NSAs, nature
Through the state system
Development, humanitarian, non/military means
Horizontally, beyond the military, and
Vertically, up to regional/global, down to individual