By Anthony J. Masys
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G. impacts of natural hazards). • Security is a ‘reactive’ process (events disrupting trends): Security appears to be about knee-jerk reactions, but ideally should be about being able to accommodate events within consistent policy frameworks. • Globalisation of security: Events that occur outside of the UK—and Europe— can have direct impacts upon the security situation in the UK. Globalisation has a direct impact on security thinking. • The phenomena of ‘widening security’: Non-security events have become securitised, because in doing so it can make it possible to quickly mobilise resources.
Climate change and natural hazards will also remain prominent but to a different extent. Depending on the priorities of the next UK Government, climate change may receive less attention as its impacts are not deemed to be immediate or obvious. In addition, climate change is hard to securitise because it is understood very differently by different government departments (with the environmental side of it being predominant). Natural hazards on the other hand are—although reactively—increasingly being viewed as relevant to the security agenda, particularly after the floods in winter 2013.
Moreover, whilst it is a rationalist and state-based approach, neoliberalism places great value on non-state actors. This also extends to the role of non-state actors in security, both as sources of threats and as providers of security. Neorealism, on the other hand, has a tendency to argue that the nation-state has remained the principal agent in security, in particular, in terms of accountability, despite the advancement of globalization and the proliferation of transnational threats and actors (Ripsman and Paul 2010: 10).