From Threats to Risks in International Security - and Subsequent Challenges for Knowing the Future

Author(s): Myriam Dunn Cavelty, Jennifer Giroux
Series: ISN Special Feature
Publisher(s): International Relations and Security Network (ISN), ETH Zurich
Publication Year: 2011

This essay looks at what the move from a security environment characterized by knowable threats to one largely comprised of diffuse risks means for our ability to anticipate future challenges. It further examines how public policy has reacted to this change.

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