Abstract
The following is an attempt to define more precisely that concept of security which has been customarily utilized in security policy research. After commencing with a defini tion of security as 'the likelihood of surviving', some of the preconditions for a high national security and the prospects for a national security policy within the future in ternational system are discussed. Among other things an attempt is made to indicate how a rational security policy will imply a gradual relinquishing of national autonomy together with efforts aimed at reducing one-sided dependence situations among pairs of nations.
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