Question
What are the choices available to a state when its security is threatened according to the traditional security perspective ?
Solution
When the security of a state is threatened, there are three basic choices:
(i) To surrender;
(i) To surrender;
(ii) To prevent the other side from attacking by promising to raise the costs of war to an unacceptable level; and
(iii) To defend itself when war actually breaks out so as to deny the attacking country its objectives and to turn back or defeat the attacking forces altogether.
