What is the difference between traditional and non-traditional security? Which category would the creation and sustenance of alliances belong to?
The difference between traditional and non traditional security are as follows:
Traditional Security | Non- Traditional Security |
1. In this conception the greatest threat to a country is from military, war, balance of power, alliance. And the source of this threat is different country 2. Here the referent is state with its territory and governing institution 3. The traditional security has recognised that cooperation between two states are possible with limited violence | 1. These notions of security goes beyond military threats to includes hunger, disease, natural disaster. 2. Here the referent is not just state but also individuals or communities or indeed all of human kind 3. In non traditional security the primary goal is protection of individual. Here the idea of global security has arose in response to global threats like global warming with which just a single country cannot fight but needs the cooperation from every nation. |
The creation and sustenance of alliance is related to component of traditional security. An alliance is coalition of states that coordinates their action to defend against military attack. Countries form alliances to increase their effective power relative to another country.