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Security rests on economic foundations, on the ability to focus as well as to generate resources. It seems evident that in the long run power and wealth depend on each other. The ability to focus resources on security concerns is, evidently, a political matter. The capacity to generate these resources turns on how we structure and organize our market economy. That capacity is a matter of political economy.
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Zysman, J. (1991). Security and Technology. In: Weltman, J.J., Nacht, M., Quester, G.H. (eds) Challenges to American National Security in the 1990s. Issues in International Security. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-8998-9_12
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