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What is security? The Oxford English Dictionary defines it as “the condition of being secure”; “freedom from doubt; confidence, assurance”; “freedom from care, anxiety or apprehension; [and] a feeling of safety or freedom from, or absence of, danger.”1 Simply put, security involves (1) describing the physical condition of being protected from, or not exposed to danger, and (2) delineating the psychological condition of feeling secure. These definitions relate to the general meaning of security, but are different from the concept used by IR theorists and experts when referring to national security or security policies.2
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Lo, C.Yp. (2015). Security: A Revised Framework for Analysis. In: HIV/AIDS in China and India. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137504210_2
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