Non-traditional security, often abbreviated to NTS, is a popular but rather ambiguousconcept within and outside academic circles. How to accurately define this term? Whatshould be considered in prioritising the needs ...Non-traditional security, often abbreviated to NTS, is a popular but rather ambiguousconcept within and outside academic circles. How to accurately define this term? Whatshould be considered in prioritising the needs to curb various NTS threats, given a countryslimited resources and capacities? By raising thought-provoking questions, the author triesto explain the perplexity concerning NTS issues, arguing that NTS is important in economic,political and security sense, but that more efforts are needed from the academics in order toreach a consensus in understanding and dealing with NTS issues.展开更多
文摘Non-traditional security, often abbreviated to NTS, is a popular but rather ambiguousconcept within and outside academic circles. How to accurately define this term? Whatshould be considered in prioritising the needs to curb various NTS threats, given a countryslimited resources and capacities? By raising thought-provoking questions, the author triesto explain the perplexity concerning NTS issues, arguing that NTS is important in economic,political and security sense, but that more efforts are needed from the academics in order toreach a consensus in understanding and dealing with NTS issues.
