political science hmw.Five pages journal.

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Journal 1 ——Security Theory

What is security theory? Currently there are 5 differing,

but overlapping approaches:

1. National Security – a perspective on security issues

that looks out from a nation’s capital. The primary

concern is the survival and well-being of the state. The

threat or use of military power is viewed as the principle

instrument used to ensure its survival.

2. International Security – a perspective on security

issues which recognizes that the security of one state is

interconnected with that of others. It views the

collective use of military power as an important

instrument of policy.

3. Regional Security – takes the same perspective of

international security, but focuses on other regions of

the world, such as Latin America, Africa, or Asia.

4. Transstate Security – a new concept within security

studies which asserts that, in the post-Cold War world,

substate and transstate actors will constitute important

sources of instability. These actors include

ethnonational movements, religious extremists, criminal

organizations, terrorists, and insurgents.

5. Global Security – as a conceptual category it seeks to

broaden the security agenda beyond the military and

politico-military matters to include human rights,

environmental protection, economic prosperity, and

social development. It often carries the normative

objective of replacing coercion, conflict, and war with

cooperation, bargaining, and peaceful change.

Journal 3 ——video link

Journal 5—— video introduction