Security: Individuals and Leviathans

Abstract

What is human security and how does it fit in the current world order? The United Nations (UN) proposed human security in 1994 at the end of the Cold War. The approach makes the individual the primary referent of security, a dramatic shift from what it had been previously, especially during the Cold War: the state. This paper demonstrates that human security resembles Western liberal notions of governance. In Western liberal tradition, individuals cause the state to exist for each of their several basic needs and interests, which constitutes a relationship between a state and its people. Human security is a UN prescription for governing constructively on behalf of the interests and needs of people.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 20, 2013
Accession Number
ADA589572

Entities

People

  • Timothy J. Roorda

Organizations

  • United States Army Command and General Staff College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Agreements
  • Cold War
  • Economic Systems
  • Foreign Relations
  • Geography
  • Governments
  • Intergovernmental Organizations
  • International Law
  • International Organizations
  • International Relations
  • National Security
  • Political Science
  • Political Systems
  • Sociopolitics
  • Treaties
  • United Nations
  • United States

Readers

  • East Asian Political and Security Studies within the Soviet Union
  • Educational Psychology
  • Team-Based Human-Centered Cognitive Task Decision Making and Information Performance.