Author profile: Katy Roberts

Contemporary global terrorism and the meaning and practice of ‘national security’

Katy Roberts • Aug 10 2011 • Essays

In light of the War on Terror, conceptions of security are evolving. Focus on national security is, and has been, waning as the sovereign state begins to lose some of its pre-eminence. Many security analysts claim the process of globalisation and it’s associated ‘risks’ are largely outside the control of nation states and that only the development of a global community can deal with this adequately.

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