The concept of security

摘要: Redefining ‘security’ has recently become something of a cottage industry.E.g. Lester Brown, National Security, Worldwatch Paper No. 14 (Washington, DC, 1977); Jessica Tuchman Matthews, ‘Redefining Security’, Foreign Affairs, 68 (1989), pp. 162-77; Richard H. Ullman, International 8 (1983), 129-53; Joseph J. Romm, Defining Security (New York, 1993); Ann Tickner, ‘Re-visioning in Ken Booth and Steve Smith (eds.), Relations Theory Today (Oxford, 1995), 175-97; Booth, ‘Security Emancipation’, Review Studies, 17 (1991), 313-26; Martin Shaw, ‘There Is No Such Thing as Society: Beyond Individualism Statism Studies’, 19 (1993), 159-75; John Peterson Hugh Ward, ‘Coalitional Instability the New Multidimensional Politics Security: A Rational Choice Argument for US-EU Cooperation’, European Journal Relations, 1 (1995), 131-56; ten articles on security studies Arms Control, 13, (1992), 463-544; Graham Allison Gregory F. Treverton Rethinking America's Cold War to World Order 1992). Most such efforts, however, are more concerned with redefining policy agendas nation-states than concept itself. Often, this takes form proposals giving high priority issues human rights, economics, environment, drug traffic, epidemics, crime, or social injustice, addition traditional concern from external military threats. usually buttressed mixture normative arguments about which values people groups should be protected, empirical nature magnitude threats those values. Relatively little attention is devoted conceptual such. This article seeks disentangle these concerns, however legitimate they may be.