One of the questions we're asked most often is surprisingly simple:
What actually counts as national security?
For many people, the term immediately brings to mind intelligence agencies, military operations, terrorism, or classified information. Those areas certainly form part of the national security landscape, but they represent only a fraction of the issues that can affect a nation's safety, stability, resilience, and prosperity.
At NatSec Press, we use the term deliberately—and broadly.
Increasingly, some of the most significant national security challenges do not originate on battlefields. They emerge through online platforms, financial systems, critical services, information environments, and social dynamics that shape how people think, behave, and respond to risk.
Understanding national security therefore requires more than a single discipline. It demands perspectives from policy, practice, research, technology, behavioural science, law, communications, and many other fields.
In the accompanying podcast episode, we explore this idea in more detail and discuss how NatSec Press approaches the concept of national security when evaluating books, research, and publishing projects. If you've ever wondered whether your work fits within the national security space, the episode provides a useful starting point.
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