Security According to Buzan: A Comprehensive Security Analysis. Security Discussion Papers. Series 1 edn

“Security is taken to be about the pursuit of freedom from threat and the ability of states and societies to maintain their independent identity and their functional integrity against forces of change, which they see as hostile. The bottom line of security is survival, but it also reasonably includes a subtstantial range of concerns about the conditions of existence. Quite where this range of concerns ceases to merit the urgency of the “security ” label (which identifies threats as significant enough to warrant emergency action and exceptional measures including the use of force) and becomes part of everyday uncertainties of life is one of the difficulties of the concept’ – Barry Buzan, ” New Patterns of Global Security in the Twenty-first Century ” International Affairs, 67.3 (1991), pp. 432-433.