A War on 'Risk'? British Government and the National Security Strategy.
This article explores the United Kingdom's National Security Strategy (NSS) since 2008, considering what the NSS discloses about how contemporary Whitehall conceptualises 'risks' to Britain. It contends that rather than being a strategy in the Clausewitzian sense, the NSS represents a political exer...
| Publicado en: | Political Quarterly Vol. 83; no. 1; pp. 172 - 177 |
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