ABSTRACT
Based on discussions about the security functions of inspection and quarantine, this chapter elaborates on the relationship between inspection and quarantine and the public security of ports, and explores the two complicated problems of “unconventional disasters” and “unconventional wars,” both closely related to national security, human security and social security, from the perspective of non-traditional security. It analyzes the security functions of inspection and quarantine according to the previous problems – “technical prevention,” “disaster prevention” and “national defense.” Finally, after scrutinizing the definition of the term “field security,” the chapter conducts a comparison at the international level on the necessity and possibility of the security functions of inspection and quarantine – “protraction,” “extension,” “transformation,” “external connection,” “emergency” and “anti-terrorist.”
(The author is a Professor at the School of Public Administration at Zhejiang University.)
