Summary
Overview
Key Readings
Human security is understood as a response to the proliferation of new security threats which fit awkwardly within the relatively narrow confines of the traditional, state-centric national security paradigm. Human Security is a field of study that has emerged over the last 20 years. It is a sub-section of security studies but encompass a diverse range of academic disciplines and policy discourses (development studies, international relations, environmental studies, public health, economics, gender issues, human rights and foreign policy). It is also increasingly being adopted by policy-makers from individual nation states (Canada and Japan), bodies (European Union and the African Union) as well as institutionalized by the United Nations, and used by non-state actors in such as NGOs and the corporate sector. This volume serves as ...
Editor's Introduction: Human Security
Security can no longer be narrowly defined as the absence of armed conflict, be it between or within states. Gross abuses of human rights, the large-scale displacement of civilian populations, international terrorism, the AIDS pandemic, drug and arms trafficking and environmental disasters present a direct threat to human security, forcing us to adopt a much more coordinated approach to a range of issues.
When asked critically about the level of uncertainty, debate, conjecture and outright skepticism regarding the concept of human security, former Canadian foreign minister Lloyd Axworthy responded assertively: ‘The world had no idea what sovereignty and the security infrastructure would look like immediately following the signing of the Treaty of Westphalia. Norms evolved through decades of debate, thought, ...
Table of Contents
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Volume I: Concept and Critique
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Emma Rothschild
1995
Daedalus
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Jessica Mathews
1989
Foreign Affairs
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3. Human Security – Protecting and Empowering the People
Sadako Ogata | Johan Cels
2003
Global Governance: A Review of Multilateralism and International Organizations
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4. A Conceptual Framework for Human Security
Sabina Alkire
2003
A Conceptual Framework for Human Security
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5. Human Security and Global Governance: Putting People First
Lloyd Axworthy
2001
Global Governance: A Review of Multilateralism and International Organizations
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6. Security Studies and the End of the Cold War
David Baldwin
1995
World Politics
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7. Deepening the Human Security Debate: Beyond the Politics of Conceptual Clarification
Pauline Ewan
2007
Politics
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8. Securing Humanity: Situating ‘Human Security’ as Concept and Discourse
Des Gasper
2005
Journal of Human Development and Capabilities: A Multi-Disciplinary Journal for People-Centered Development
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9. The Security Puzzle: Theory-Building and Discipline-Building in International Security
Helga Haftendorn
1991
International Studies Quarterly
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10. Human Security: Relevance and Implications
Dan Henk
2005
Parameters
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11. Human Security: A Shotgun Approach to Alleviating Human Misery?
Yuen Khong
2001
Global Governance: A Review of Multilateralism and International Organizations
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12. Human Security: A Challenge to International Law?
Gerd Oberleitner
2005
Global Governance: A Review of Multilateralism and International Organizations
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13. A Colloquium on Human Security
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14. Global Inequality and Human Security
Amartya Sen
2007
Globalization and Politics in India
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15. Global Governance, Development and Human Security: Exploring the Links
Caroline Thomas
2001
Third World Quarterly
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16. The Idea of Human Security
Des Gasper
2010
Climate Change, Ethics and Human Security
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17. Human Security: Paradigm Shift or Hot Air?
Roland Paris
2001
International Security
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18. New Dimensions of Human Security
1994
Human Development Report
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19. Human Security and the Protection of Vulnerable Groups
S. MacFarlane
2006
Human Security and the UN: A Critical History
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20. Human Security: A New Strategic Narrative for Europe
Mary Kaldor | Mary Martin | Sabine Selchow
2007
International Affairs
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21. Human Security: East versus West
Amitav Acharya
2001
International Journal
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Volume II: As Critical Theory
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22. Critical Voices and Human Security: To Endure, to Engage or to Critique?
Ryerson Christie
2010
Security Dialogue
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23. Human Security: Toward an Opening
Annick Wibben
2008
Security Dialogue
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24. The Tyranny of Benevolence: National Security, Human Security, and the Practice of Statecraft
William Bain
2001
Global Society
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25. Girl Soldiers: Human Security and Gendered Insecurity
Mary-Jane Fox
2004
Security Dialogue
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26. Gender, Resistance and Human Security
Gunhild Hoogensen | Kirsti Stuvøy
2006
Security Dialogue
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27. Human Security as Global Security: Reconceptualising Strategic Studies
Ralph Pettman
2005
Cambridge Review of International Affairs
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28. Human Security as Power/Knowledge: The Biopolitics of a Definitional Debate
Kyle Grayson
2008
Cambridge Review of International Affairs
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Heidi Hudson
2005
Security Dialogue
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30. Critical Human Security Studies
Edward Newman
2010
Review of International Studies
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31. Human Security and the Governmentality of Neo-Liberal Mobility: A Feminist Perspective
Thanh-Dam Truong
2006
Human Security and the Governmentality of Neo-liberal Mobility: A Feminist Perspective
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32. Human Security, Neoliberalism and Corporate Social Responsibility
Kyle Grayson
2010
International Politics
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33. Sovereign Power and the Biopolitics of Human Security
Miguel de Larrinaga | Marc Doucet
2008
Security Dialogue
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Ikechi Mgbeoji
2006
Third World Quarterly
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35. Individual and Societal Dimensions of Security
Pinar Bilgin
2003
International Studies Review
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36. Critical Theory and Security Studies: The Research Programme of ‘Critical Security Studies’
Keith Krause
1998
Cooperation and Conflict
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37. Globalization and Human Security: A Neo-Gramscian Perspective
Earl Conteh-Morgan
2004
International Journal of Peace Studies
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38. Human Security and Constructivism
Edward Newman
2001
International Studies Perspectives
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39. Paradigms in Conflict: The Contested Claims of Human Security, Critical Theory and Feminism
Mohammed Nuruzzaman
2006
Cooperation and Conflict
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40. Human Security: The Dog That Didn't Bark
David Chandler
2008
Security Dialogue
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Taylor Owen
2008
Security Dialogue
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42. Power and Agency in the Human Security Framework
Tara McCormack
2008
Cambridge Review of International Affairs
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Volume III: Policy and Advocacy
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43. Human Security's Future in Regional Cooperation and Governance?
Melissa Curley
2012
Australian Journal of International Affairs
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44. Securing Humans in a Dangerous World
Mark Duffield | Nicholas Waddell
2006
International Politics
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45. Japan's Foreign Policy and Human Security
Bert Edström
2003
Japan Forum
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46. Pulpit Diplomacy: A Critical Assessment of the Axworthy Doctrine
Fen Hampson | Dean Oliver
1998
International Journal
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Richard Jolly | Deepayan Ray
2007
Journal of International Development
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48. The Utility of the Human Security Agenda for Policy-Makers
Pauline Kerr | William Tow | Marianne Hanson
2003
Asian Journal of Political Science
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49. Instituting and Projecting Human Security: A Canadian Perspective
George Maclean
2000
Australian Journal of International Affairs
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50. Much Ado about Little: The EU and Human Security
Janne Matlary
2008
International Affairs
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51. The Second Generation of Human Security: Lessons from the UN and EU Experience
Mary Martin | Taylor Owen
2010
International Affairs
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52. The Utility of Human Security: Sovereignty and Humanitarian Intervention
Nicholas Thomas | William Tow
2002
Security Dialogue
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53. Humanitarianism and Human Security in a Post-9/11 World
Jide Okeke
2009
The International Journal of Human Rights
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54. Collaborative Human Security? The UN and Other Actors in Cambodia
Sorpong Peou
2005
International Peacekeeping
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55. Human Security and the Interests of States
Astri Suhrke
1999
Security Dialogue
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56. Boomerang Effect: The Convergence of National and Human Security
P. Liotta
2002
Security Dialogue
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57. Human Security in Practice: Canadian and Japanese Experiences
David Bosold | Sascha Werthes
2005
International Politics and Society
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Marlies Glasius
2008
Security Dialogue
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Volume IV: Methodologies and Tools
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59. The Idea of Human Security
Kanti Bajpai
2003
International Studies
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60. Notes on Developing a Human Security/Insecurity Index
Peter Brecke
2002
Notes on Developing a Human Security/Insecurity Index
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61. True Measures of Human Security
Paz Buttedahl
1994
IDRC Reports
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Lincoln Chen | Aafje Rietveld
1994
Medicine & Global Survival
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63. Toward Modeling Regionally Specific Human Security Using GIS: Case Study Cambodia
Taylor Owen | Olav Slaymaker
2005
AMBIO: A Journal of the Human Environment
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64. Human Development Index: Methodology and Measurement
Sudhir Anand | Amartya Sen
1964
Human Development Occasional Papers (1992–2007)
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65. Human Security: A Framework for Assessment in Conflict and Transition
Jennifer Leaning | Sam Arie
Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies
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67. The Index of Human Insecurity
Steve Lonergan | Kent Gustavson | Brian Carter
2000
Aviso Bulletin
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68. Data Issues in the Study of Conflict
Paul Collier | Anke Hoeffler
2001
Paper for the Uppsala Conference on Conflict Data
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69. Architecture for Early Warning at the U.N. Based on Human Security Indicators
Sundara Vadlamudi
2003
Monterey Institute of International Studies
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Taylor Owen
Environmental Change and Human Security: Recognizing and Acting on Hazard Impacts
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