What is the difference between traditional and non-traditional securit

What is the difference between traditional and non-traditional security? Which category would the creation and sustenance of alliances belong to?

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Traditional	Non-Traditional
1. Traditional notion is concerned with the use of the military, a war the balance of power and alliance building.	1. It goes beyond military by threatening conditions necessary for human survival.
2. Traditional notion is concerned with the state and its governing institutions.	2. It covers a broad aspect of security i.e hunger diseases etc.
3. It is confined to state only by thinking of internal and external threats	3. It covers not only the state but also all individuals or humankind.
4. Its main focus is on force only to achieve the target.	4. It comprises cooperation, hence it protects human or global security.

Creation and sustenance of alliances belong to traditional notion of security.