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Do you agree with the view that over-widening of the concept of ‘national security’ has made it a more amorphous concept? Discuss.

  • UPSC 2011
  • 40 marks
  • Key Concepts in International Relations

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Barry Buzan called security an "underdeveloped" concept, and Arnold Wolfers an "ambiguous symbol". Since the 1980s it has been widened from military threats to economic, societal and environmental ones, and deepened from the state to the individual. Whether this has made it amorphous, shapeless and unable to discriminate, depends on whether the widening is disciplined…

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