This chapter addresses the public policy dimensions of national security and seeks to explain how national security policy has supplanted ‘normal’ modes of public policy, carving out its imperatives as either exceptional or ascendant in democratic decision-making. In doing so, the chapter first explores the brief history of the public policy-national security relationship, then turns to an examination of policy-making trends in Western models of government. The chapter’s core claim is that while national security is a crucial element of the broader gamut of public policy initiatives undertaken by liberal democracies, it has steadily encroached on, set aside or transgressed core public policy principles, especially in the arena of legitimacy.
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