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UK Perspectives on Security in an Age of ‘Shock and Aftershock’

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European Perspectives on Security Research

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In many European languages the terms’ security’ and’ safety’ are represented by the same word and carry the same meaning: Sécurité (French), Veiligheid (Dutch), Sicherheit (German), Sikkerhet (Danish), Seguridad (Spanish), Sicurezza (Italian), Bezpiecze stwo (Polish), Segurança (Portuguese). Whilst the words have very similar meanings in the English language they have very different connotations and are used in different ways.

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  1. Tobias Feakin
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  1. Fraunhofer-Institut für Kurzzeitdynamik, Ernst-Mach-Institut, EMI, 79104, Freiburg, Germany

    Klaus Thoma

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Feakin, T. (2011). UK Perspectives on Security in an Age of ‘Shock and Aftershock’. In: Thoma, K. (eds) European Perspectives on Security Research. acatech DISKUTIERT, vol 1. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-18219-8_4

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