Security Issues §

• Traditional Security: focus on ¹
  • War
  • defending national interests: the freedom from fear and want
• Non-Traditional Security (NTS): ¹
  • WMD
    • Chemical Weapons
    • Biological Weapons
    • Nuclear Weapons
  • There are other weapons that aren’t categorized as WMDs but kill much more people than WMDs
  • Environmental deterioration and it’s effects:
    • Chapter 9 Environmental Issue in International Relations in Southeast Asia
    • Climate Change
  • Growing pressure on national resources
    • GIGW-C4 Resource Curse and Corruption
  • Democracy and human rights
    • Chapter 2 States and Democracy
    • Human Rights
  • Legal and illegal migration and ethnic tension
  • Gaps in wealth and income
    • GIGW-C3 Rising Inequality in Asia and Policy Implications
  • Separatism, insurgency, and Terrorism

References §

Footnotes §

1. GIGW-C11 Security ↩ ↩²