Sustainable Security: Rethinking American National Security Strategy

摘要

In his classic book Risk Society towards a new Modernity the German Sociologist Ulrich Beck realized that the dilemma of security contained an underlying contradiction very difficult to grasp. While our efforts are posed to achieve a zero-risk community, new unseen risks emerge (Beck 1992). In view of this, some of the guiding questions that frame this review are what does a security analyst serve for?; what is its role in post 9/11 context?