CHAPTER 5

Security in the Contemporary World

CHAPTER AT A GLANCE

  • Traditional Security Policy has 4 components:
    1. Deterrence (to prevent war)
    2. Defence (to limit or end war)
    3. Balance of power
    4. Alliance building
  • Traditional threats to security are external military threats, civil wars, etc. In this conception of security, force is the principal threat to security as well as the principal means of achieving security.
  • Non-traditional threats to security are terrorism, global poverty, health epidemics, natural disasters, violation of human rights, etc.
  • Human Rights can broadly be categorized into:
    1. Political rights
    2. Economic and social rights
    3. The rights of colonised people or ethnic and indigenous minorities
  • India’s security strategy has four components: ...

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