National Security 3


National Security 3 :

"The concept of national security has broadened, but that is where agreement ends. The evolution of the concept of national security has been underway for some time. In the 1980s a debate raged about whether the environment was a security issue. A similar argument emerged with respect to health in the late 1990s. Today those debates are over; the pressure of today's constantly changing and highly unpredictable security landscape has caused policy makers and analysts to generally accept that the concept of national security has broadened well beyond the one used by decision makers for most of the Cold War era. But its borders remain fuzzy, and it is unlikely that the concept of national security will become more precisely bounded in the near future. Increasingly, new issues will push their way onto the national security agenda, and they will not arrive with neat labels. They will become national security issues through the interaction of popular opinion, the course of events at home and abroad, and the actions of presidents and their administrations. For example, the Clinton administration identified HIV/AIDS as not simply a domestic public health concern, but an international security challenge. The concern and programs to deal with it were continued by the Bush administration". (Project on National Security Reform, Ensuring Security, 2008 p. 9).

No records Found
afaatim.com copyright © April 2016 Dr.K.R.Kamaal. All rights reserved