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Critically assess the changing nature of the concept of national security.

  • UPSC 2014, 2010, 2002
  • 15 marks
  • Key Concepts in International Relations

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Security means freedom from threat. Arnold Wolfers called national security an "ambiguous symbol" (1952): objectively the absence of threats to acquired values, subjectively the absence of fear that they will be attacked. What has changed since 1945 is the answer to three questions: security of whom, from what, and by what means.

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