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Article: CONCEPT OF NATIONAL SECURITY
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- Info-Prod Research (Middle East)
- Article date:
- October 12, 2008
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Author of "Politics among Nations", the late political scientist
Hans Morgenthau, defined National Security as "the integrity of the
national territory and its institutions". National Security till
recently meant the freedom of each and every State from any external
State, that freedom is the fundamental and uncompromising goal of
every nation State. This definition envisages national security
problems arising with those countries that are close enough and/or
powerful enough for their actions to threaten our security in a
negative way. The rising tide of globalization has made national
borders irrelevant and made radical changes in the concept of
national security. The State has been ...