126 countries now publish a national security strategy or defense document, and 45 of these feature
a leaders’ preambles. How these talk about the world, or not, is surprisingly revealing of historical
global strategic hierarchies.
Andrew Neal
Andrew W. Neal is Professor of International Security at the University of Edinburgh. His most recent monograph is Security as Politics: Beyond the State of Exception (Edinburgh University Press, 2019). He is currently working on a project to collect and analyse all national security strategies in the world, and another on North Sea critical infrastructure protection.
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