ABSTRACT
The UK’s 1998 Strategic Defence Review (SDR) concentrated on a broader range of threats to British ‘security’ than had been the case throughout much of the Cold War period. It drew attention away from ‘hard’ security threats to the UK’s sovereignty and territorial integrity and, instead, focused more upon ‘the consequences of the break up of states’ and ‘ethnic and religious conflict, population and environmental pressures, and crime’2 as fundamental sources of insecurity. This represented a broadening of the term ‘insecurity’ to encompass ‘instability’ posing a threat to the British economy, multiculturalism and wider British interests.
