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Security Cooperation

Security cooperation
HaraldMüller

Introduction

The definition of security as the absence of existential threats to one state emanating from another has come under fire (Booth, 2005). First, the state is said to not be the only and/or appropriate subject of security. Social, ethnical, religious minorities (‘societal security’) (see Waever et al., ...

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