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The Security Motive

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The security motive is the most fundamental and universal of all of the domains in the Forbes Matrix. And there are two very good reasons why.

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Forbes, D. (2015). The Security Motive. In: The Science of Why. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137502049_5

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