Drezner, Daniel W.

How everything became national security: And national security became everything - Foreign Affairs - 103(5), Sep-Oct, 2024: p.122-135

In American politics, labeling something a matter of “national security” automatically elevates its importance. In the language of foreign policy observers, national security questions, such as regulating weapons of mass destruction, are matters of “high politics,” whereas other issues, such as human rights, are “low politics.”- Reproduced

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