Economic security and its imperatives

It is important to distinguish between national and comprehensive economic security. National economic security concerns the requirements of national security, while comprehensive economic security concerns requirements other than those of national security. While national and comprehensive economic security share some common ground, they differ in crucial respects. They differ in terms of referent objects of security, the nature of security threats, critical issues, and general policy imperatives. The relationship between national and comprehensive economic security is complex. Political authorities are presented with difficult choices where they seek to pursue national and comprehensive economic security in tandem. While national economic security requirements often take precedence, the requirements of comprehensive economic security can be sufficiently important for political authorities to promote this even where there us a clash with national economic security.