Australia’s Future Threat Space: Strategic Risks & Systemic Vulnerabilities
Author: David Beveridge
Volume 2, Number 2 (July 2006), pp. 43-59.
Abstract
Drawing on the Kokoda International Conference “Next Generation Threats to Australia” this paper discusses strategic risks and systemic vulnerabilities affecting national security; suggests that Australia needs to take a whole-of-nation approach and proposes a Federal Government Green Paper as a means for taking this forward. It concludes that non-traditional concerns will lead in future national security planning; albeit the consequences of traditional state-driven threats cannot be set aside. Its findings suggest a changing relativity between non-traditional and traditional security perspectives, perhaps heralding a need to reconsider the current balance of investment.
About the Author
David Beveridge is a member of the Kokoda Foundation and a former Australian Public Service official and Australian and British Army officer who has worked in Defence and PM&C, and for the Director-General of Security. Currently he consults on national security issues and is a PhD candidate at UNSW@ADFA. db103214@bigpond.net.au.
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