Human security within the context of globalization... – the individual as international (global) actor

Bogdan Ştefanachi

Abstract


In the middle of the 1990s the concept of human security is introduced as a  reflection of general change of the stress from the military state‑centric issues (assumed by the realist and neo‑realist orthodoxism) towards those non‑military. This new narrative consists in the transformation of the individual into the reference object of security, due to the fact that, under the pressure of globalization, the state is moved away (at least partially) from the epicenter of policy making. So, the concept of security is extended from the security of the nations to the security of the individuals, from the nation to the international system, is extending by supplementing the military perspective with the political, economic and environmental ones and thus, the range of security can basically receive human dimension. By the mechanisms and the normative principles of such a  perspective it is possible to identify some important arguments that human security can be fundamental in the justification of the ethics of interventions and by by‑passing the state to offer the ultimate argument for just war theory (used to address the moral and legal aspects linked with the use of military force).

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security; human security; Cold War; individual; human rights

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17951/k.2013.20.1.7
Date of publication: 2015-07-15 13:24:45
Date of submission: 2015-07-14 01:54:43


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