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Global Security

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While national security is a relatively narrow concept and is understood to refer to physical and territorial boundaries (inclusive of cyber security), global security is a more complex, broader, and multifaceted term. According to Intriligator (1994), global security refers to the absence of threats to the vital interests of the planet. On the other hand, RAND Corporation (n.d.) submits that global security includes military and diplomatic measures that nations and international organizations such as the United Nations and NATO take to ensure mutual safety and security. Instructively, while National Security is often referenced by way of physical and territorial boundaries, it is argued that global security is much broader in scope. According to Al-Rodhan (2007), global security is a broader concept which encapsulates has dimensions that include human, environmental, national, transnational, and transcultural security, and, therefore, global security. Another useful...

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  1. The Centre for Criminology and Criminal Justice, Department of Behavioural Sciences, The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago

    Wendell C. Wallace

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  1. International Centre for Policing and Security, University of South Wales, Pontypridd, UK

    Scott N. Romaniuk

  2. Institute for International, Political and Regional Studies, Corvinus University of Budapest, Budapest, Hungary

    Péter N. Marton

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Wallace, W.C. (2023). Global Security. In: Romaniuk, S.N., Marton, P.N. (eds) The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Global Security Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74319-6_52

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