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Explain the difference between security dilemma and insecurity dilemma.

  • UPSC 2008
  • 20 marks
  • Key Concepts in International Relations

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Both concepts describe a perverse dynamic: actions taken to become secure end up producing insecurity. They differ in where that dynamic operates. The security dilemma runs between states across borders; the insecurity dilemma, a term introduced by Brian L. Job in The Insecurity Dilemma: National Security of Third World States (1992), runs inside weak states,…

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