From crisis to strategy: new thinking on national security / IPPR, 1 June 2007
http://www.ippr.org/articles/?id=2737
Ian Kearns
"A glance at the daily headlines offers negative confirmation of the urgent need for long-term thinking about security. North Korea and Darfur do occasionally dislodge Iraq, Iran and the politics of the wider middle east from their pre-eminent position on the international security agenda - but not often, and not for long. Similarly, at the level of domestic debates on public safety in the post-9/11 west, few countries get beyond terrorism as the issue of number-one concern. While this is unsurprising and to an extent understandable, it also betrays a political and media tendency to address short-term pressures while neglecting strategic thinking that looks forward a generation and more."