National Security in the Third World by Abdul-Monem M Al-Mashat

Author:Abdul-Monem M Al-Mashat [Al-Mashat, Abdul-Monem M]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Political Science, General
ISBN: 9780367017224
Google: M3ekDwAAQBAJ
Goodreads: 51377100
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-06-07T00:00:00+00:00

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Tranquility Index: A Measure of National Security in the Third World

Introduction

The purpose of this chapter is to test empirically the hypothesis stated at the end of the previous chapter. As indicated earlier, the complexity and ambiguity of national security make difficult an assessment that captures all aspects and dimensions of it--the behavioral aspect, the structural aspect, the objective dimension, the subjective dimension, and the interrelations among these aspects and dimensions. However, tranquility is such an assessment, reflecting the net behavioral performance of a state. Hence, tranquility can be used as a measure of national security. This study, which is cross-national, is concerned with how to discern the behavioral, objective aspect of national security--tranquility--and describe its relation to some of the structural aspects of developing countries. The main objective is to use events data and other structural properties to rank the developing countries according to their tranquility scores. Such a ranking will help in the classification of different clusters of states--clusters that may be perceived as regions of security. These regions are not analogous to geographical regions or resource regions. Thus, states will be dispersed according to their tranquility scores into different types of clusters.

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