Asymmetric security threats (concept, characteristics, and types)

Abstract

In light of the tensions that international relations, especially Iraqi ones, are witnessing, and the change in the nature and structure of threats against the security of the state, societies, and individuals, which are no longer a threat from specific states, but rather from new forces produced by the international system, such as terrorism, cyber threats, and other non-traditional and modern forms of threat,  After countries adopted defensive policies to ensure their national security represented by (border security, preservation of sovereignty, and non-interference in the internal affairs of the state), and after the change in the pattern of threats, they became of a societal, non-military nature, "such as ethnic conflicts and the emergence of ethnic groups and armed groups", which  The Iraqi state has challenged the realization of these threats, which have moved from the stages of challenges and sounded the alarm with the beginning of the Iraqi state’s approach after 2003, to build its capabilities and capabilities in order to get out of the scope of the

 non-state and the classifications of failed or fragile states, which contributed greatly to the delay in building a strong, modern and modern Iraqi state, and contributed  With other conditions of political, economic and social instability, which cast a negative shadow on all other levels, and instability contributed to the adoption of the principle of "transferring crises", which naturally prompted the influence and vulnerability of these threats and how to deal with them flexibly and effectively, but successive administrations proceeded to do so.  By building new defensive or treatment strategies to confront these various threats.