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Disarmament is not enough.

  • Jun. 16th, 2008 at 7:53 PM
Good article at Onlineopinion by Marko Beljac

All this talk of the security dilemma and alternative approaches reminds me of good old States Nations and Security in first year. The security dilemma is a systemic problem, that needs a fundamental restructuring of international relations to reach any sort of solution. Clearly removing the threat of complete global annihilation by nuclear weapons is a good thing, but more is needed for international security. It's really a shift in the focus of security that is needed, from the state and military to the individual and society as the ultimate aim of security. Something along the lines of 'comprehensive security' or even 'social defence'. This individual security is the sort of thing that recent UN SecGen's have been going on about, with no more than rhetorical support from states.  

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