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Changing nature of State security.

The traditional approach to security threat as either external or internal in nature has been challenged by time and occurrences around the world that shaped political responses to these particular threats. The problems faced by states are now more intertwined as states evolved over the years and new challenges emerged as a result of these interactions. Once state’s major threat was external military attack, currently it's home grown terrorists, the role of police was internal peacekeeping and order, now its pursuing domestic drug dealers and unlike outside state borders, on the other hand military’s tasks not only resemble that of internal security, but the rules of deployment has also been modified by international law. Additionally, the provision of services that were once entrusted to states, like security, has been delegated by states to private security providers instead. All these changes did not occur in vacuum, it has been aided by major developments in the global syst