National Interest and International Security:A Theoretical Understanding

Abstract

The author intends to address contemporary issues relating to international security through the lens of national interest. In addition such an analysis shall be conducted in the light of the Copenhagen School’s views on international security through the eyes of Barry Buzan. Furthermore an amalgamation of Realist views on international security which engenders the idea that anarchy makes security the paramount foreign policy concern of the state shall also facilitate the comprehensive understanding of the organic link between these two concepts. The author nonetheless intends to analyze the relationship between national interest, power and international security through a number of case studies involving global powers. This paper shall further question whether international security is possible to achieve in the contemporary world. This research will be mainly based on primary sources such as speeches made by heads of state and United Nations resolutions. Secondary sources such as journal articles, books written on national interest and international security by John Baylis, Charles Kegley, and Martin Griffiths, “Foreign Policy” and “Foreign Affairs” magazine articles, and the international media shall also be used extensively. Therefore primary and secondary sources shall contribute to qualitative research with the absence of an experimental design. Hence the author shall produce content based analysis through archival research. Collected data on international security will be analyzed through the lens of national interest.