This study intends to identify conceptual differences between traditional and non-traditional security, and to present an explanatory framework for analysis to explicate the shift from traditional security to non-traditional security. This study does ...
This study intends to identify conceptual differences between traditional and non-traditional security, and to present an explanatory framework for analysis to explicate the shift from traditional security to non-traditional security. This study does not present the Kuhn's paradigm shift but a progress of a scientific research program for a framework for analysis to explain the change from traditional to non-traditional security. The framework of a scientific research program, basically developed by Imre Lakatos, regards a theory as a specific structure and consequently sees a complex theory as a structured whole. According to the logic of the scientific research program, the evolution of science is proceeded in the form of a specific structure. As a scientific research program, the National Security Research Program(hereafter NSRP) is composed of some hard-cores and a protective belt. Hard-cores of the NSRP are both a state-centricity and a military centricity. More specifically, the main subject of the traditional security is the state, and the main means of security is the military. Since the formation of the modem world system, state has been a main actor in the international system. State has been using the military forces as a most useful method in pursuing state gains and state interests. The state-centricity and military-centricity in the security community was most strong during the Cold War period. The property of state and military centricity is closely related to the states outer sovereignty based upon territory. The challenges of sub-national and trans-national sovereignty in the post-Cold War era, mainly provided the advent of global governance, are associated with are new threat to traditional security program. To what degree and how much the advent of global governance will threat to the traditional security program depends upon the degree of collapse of hard-cores of the NSRP. Unless the new challenge to the SRP destroys the state and military centricity of the NSRP, the traditional security program will survive surrounded by the protective belt.