The New Front Line:
Security in a changing world
ippr Commission on National Security, Working Paper No. 1

Author: Ian Kearns and Ken Gude
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Price: Free
Publication Date: 13 February 2008

This paper analyses the key changes taking place in the national and international security landscape and assesses their implications for policy, examining the context within which a national security strategy must now be forged. As a result, it becomes clear that the contemporary security landscape is about much more than terrorism alone.

The paper identifies five drivers of change and their effects:

• Globalisation and power diffusion
• Global poverty and failing states
• Climate change
• The growth of political Islam
• Socio-economic vulnerability.