Open AccessBroadening security concept: From "national" to "human security"
Author(s) -
Svetlana Djurdjevic-Lukic
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
međunarodni problemi
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2406-0690
pISSN - 0025-8555
DOI - 10.2298/medjp0404397d
Subject(s) - critical security studies , human security , national security , security studies , security through obscurity , security engineering , political science , corporate security , international security , security convergence , economic security , network security policy , state (computer science) , focus (optics) , computer security , computer science , security information and event management , security service , cloud computing security , public administration , public relations , information security , law , cloud computing , physics , optics , algorithm , stakeholder
In this paper the author explores advantages and disadvantages of expanding the definition of security from the traditional state-centric and military-oriented focus of security to the broader focus on human security. The author's opinion is that human security indicates important social-economic threats, but that the theory of the concept has not yet been coherently developed. Such a broad concept with so many equally valid dimensions of security lacks mechanisms for the establishment of causal relationship among them, and for prioritisation on policy level. There are no clear answers on key questions: who or what will provide human security under which conditions, and how? The all-inclusiveness of the human security approach reduces its value as a concept both to inform and to legitimise practical policy-making