Rethinking Security: The Limits of the Traditional Concept of Security in a World of Non-Traditional Threats
Journal: HAPSc Policy Briefs Series
Year: 2020

This essay discusses the evolution of the modern conception of security and argues that there is a need for its expansion in order to tackle the rising non-traditional threats. Traditionally, the realist paradigm of national security has dominated the academic debate, while promoting a military and state-centric approach to “doing security”. Despite emergence of non-military and non-state security threats, the paradigm of national security is still figuring at the center of the modern state. How