National security
December 21, 2009
National security,Security Dilemma
Traditional approach to national security in the historical debate about how best to achieve national security writers like Hobbes, Machiavelli, Rousseau tended to paint a rather pessimistic picture of the implications of the state sovereignty.
The international system was the viewed as rather chaos area in which states would seek to achieve their own security at the expanse of their neighbors. Interstate relations were seen as a struggle for power as states constantly attempted to take advantage of each other.
According to this view permanent peace unlikely to be achieved. This view was also shared by EH Carr and Morgenthau.
Neo-realist agrees that these assumptions produce a tendency for the states to act aggressively towards each other.
According to their view national security or insecurity in largely the result of the structure of international system. The structure of anarchy is seen as being highly durable. The implication of this is that international politics in future is likely to be a violent as international politics in the past. The end ot the cold war was likely to usher in a retort to the traditional multilateral BOP(balance of power) politics of the past in which extreme nationalism and ethnic rivalries would lead to wide spread unstaliblity and conflict.
Whatever the historian or social scientist all are agree on a point that security dilemma and national security creates further complication for the international stability, security dilemma is a major reason of national security. Major International conflicts of contemporary world are due to security dilemma, like issue of North Korean nuclear programme , Iranian nuclear programme etc.
International politics may not be characterized by constant wars but there is nevertheless a relentless security completion which takes place like a rain that fall everywhere regardless of the river, lacks, desert.
