Exploring the Nexus
Ishtiaque Alam*
mankind. For some countries
traditional security or military security
concerns continued to dominate the
security obsession. In other cases,
traditional and nontraditional security
issues became intertwined. After the
demise of Cold War, traditional
issues of security steadily lose their
significance and on the other hand
nontraditional security issues gained
prominence.
Among
the
nontraditional issues that exist within
the nonmilitary sphere are the issues
of environmental security, energy
security, food security, water
security,
poverty,
terrorism,
transnational crimes and health.
These extended areas of security fall
within the sphere of societal security.
The issue of societal security was not
considered as a distinct branch of
security. But after the publication of
Barry Buzan‘s book People, States
and Fear: An agenda for international
security studies in the post-Cold War
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It is imperative for every state in the
world to consider the issue of its
national security with utmost
importance. Since the Cold War era
security of the state primarily by
military means has traveled a long
way to consider othe