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Several problems with ascertaining the conditions for achieving security are highlighted. Although individual security has traditionally been determined by evaluating a person's physical & environmental safety, economic well-being, social security, domestic order, & identity & values, it is asserted that additional measures must be incorporated into individual security assessments, eg, the need to calculate risks & identify potential threats. Although it is deemed easier to evaluate national security than individual security, it is noted that national security is contradictory since personal insecurity is frequently necessary to secure the nation. It is subsequently asserted that efforts to preserve global/planetary security conflict with measures designed to protect individual security. Even though international security is perceived as the product of global cooperation, it is maintained that threats to international safety emanate from the domestic deficiencies of particular members of the international community. Consequently, it is stressed that many people have advocated community-based security measures to compensate for inadequate national & international security programs. Multiple recommendations for enhancing Australia's national security, promoting Australia's involvement in international security design, & addressing the growth of community-based security in Australia are also offered. 1 Figure. J. W. Parker

Although George W. Bush invoked "regime change" as one of his justifications for a US invasion of Iraq, the concept itself has a long history dating back to the time of Julius Caesar. Today the concept remains bound up in a "good vs evil" binarism, although policy analysts also consider more nuanced aspects such as the designation of states as "viable," "failed," "weak," etc, & what it would take to make a state "successful." Strategies for peaceful regime change are examined according to a framework suggested by the work of Inis Claude. Claude hold that states could be bolstered through building "community strength, plural politics, consensus, legitimacy, & resilience.". K. Coddon