Economic Developme
PF/2762
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT - A STRATEGY FOR
NATIONAL SECURITY OF BANGLADESH
INTRODUCTION
1. The post cold war era seemed to be indeed promising. The people found states with the aspirations of enhancing the individual and group security. Thus internal security is the prime responsibility of a nation state for the overall national security. “The former Soviet Union had to pay heavily for their ignorance of internal matters and giving priorities to 'Perestroica' and other reforms”.[1]
2. All state to some degree is vulnerable to military and economic threats, and many also suffer from a fundamental political insecurity. The nature of security as a problem necessarily differs substantially from state to state. The different components of the state appear vulnerable to different kinds of threats, which makes national security a problem in many dimensions rather than just a matter of military defence.
3. Even the world's single power USA has changed their strategy for their concept and strategy for national security. USA today outlined the economic growth as one of the major strategy for their national security. Americans effort to enhance their security emphasises economic growth amongst three major strategies for their national security.[2] Americans national security draws upon a range of political, military and economic instruments and focuses on enhancing security, promoting prosperity at home and promoting democracy.
4. The world today seemed to have realised that there is no end to the race of power game and that endangers the existence of a nation instead of ensuring security. Security is essentially a matter of perception. Increase of one's security is at the cost of others fear of insecurity. Unfortunately, consideration of military threats had often played dominant role in setting the strategy for national security of many countries of the world. Thereby, other non-military threats had often been ignored. Now world leaders dream of
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT - A STRATEGY FOR
NATIONAL SECURITY OF BANGLADESH
INTRODUCTION
1. The post cold war era seemed to be indeed promising. The people found states with the aspirations of enhancing the individual and group security. Thus internal security is the prime responsibility of a nation state for the overall national security. “The former Soviet Union had to pay heavily for their ignorance of internal matters and giving priorities to 'Perestroica' and other reforms”.[1]
2. All state to some degree is vulnerable to military and economic threats, and many also suffer from a fundamental political insecurity. The nature of security as a problem necessarily differs substantially from state to state. The different components of the state appear vulnerable to different kinds of threats, which makes national security a problem in many dimensions rather than just a matter of military defence.
3. Even the world's single power USA has changed their strategy for their concept and strategy for national security. USA today outlined the economic growth as one of the major strategy for their national security. Americans effort to enhance their security emphasises economic growth amongst three major strategies for their national security.[2] Americans national security draws upon a range of political, military and economic instruments and focuses on enhancing security, promoting prosperity at home and promoting democracy.
4. The world today seemed to have realised that there is no end to the race of power game and that endangers the existence of a nation instead of ensuring security. Security is essentially a matter of perception. Increase of one's security is at the cost of others fear of insecurity. Unfortunately, consideration of military threats had often played dominant role in setting the strategy for national security of many countries of the world. Thereby, other non-military threats had often been ignored. Now world leaders dream of