Contemporary Security and Strategy

This chapter raises the following main points: The study of security has experienced a series of debates around the nature of the threats to security.The early security scholars, as distinct from those who studied strategy and warfare, took a broad approach and argued that military and non-military means could achieve security.During the Cold War the study of security focused on the most pressing security issue of the day — the nuclear standoff between the two superpowers.In the post-Cold War era the broader approach to the study of security returned to the fore and included non-state actors and non-traditional sources of insecurity.