|
( National security)
National security is the entire scope[1] of measures undertaken by the governments of nation-states in providing assurance of national sovereignty to the collective population of the state. The measures included in achieving this assurance refer to the requirement to maintain and exercise the use of national political and economic power, the exercise of diplomacy, and military power projection. The late political scientist Hans Morgenthau, author of Politics Among Nations, defines national security as the integrity of the national territory and its institutions. National security is is an undertaking lower in complexity only to the international security. It directly or indirectly encompass much of the national public administration. At its basic, national security can be divided into internal national security and external national security. Internal national security is concerned with ensuring state legal codes are not transgressed, and prevention of attacks on public infrastructures and their personnel by implementing civil defense and emergency preparedness measures (including anti-terrorism legislation), and ensuring the resilience and redundancy of critical infrastructure. This also includes using counterintelligence services or secret services to protect the nation from internal threats sponsored from the outside. The executive authority for internal national security is the expression of political power, preferably through democratic process of selecting national leaders. Internal national security is also the management of national finances free from economic problems that can lead to large scale public dissatisfaction with the government, and public disorder through protests.
|
National security Subcategories
National security Articles
|
| 
