Security Policy Considerations

Abstract

O. Security Policy Considerations. Cooperation and Conflict, UI, 1971, 31-8. The following is an attempt to define more precisely that concept of security which has been customarily utilized in security policy research. After commencing with a definition of security as 'the likelihood of surviving', some of the preconditions for a high national security and the prospects for a national security policy within the future international system are discussed. Among other things an attempt is made to indicate how a rational security policy will imply a gradual relinquishing of national autonomy together with efforts aimed at reducing one-sided dependence situations among pairs of nations.