The second generation of human security
Lessons from the UN and EU experience
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3741301 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mary Martins (0000-0002-4415-9625), Mary Martin (0000-0003-4471-2205, London School of Economics and Political Science), Taylor Owens, Taylor Owen (0000-0003-1848-187X, Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 86 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 211-224 |
| Publication date | 2010-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Affairs (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-5850 • E-ISSN: 1468-2346 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1468-2346.2010.00876.x |
| OpenAlex | W2077304055 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 32 |
The concept of human security, while much contested in both academic and policy debates, and highly fragmented across different meanings and forms of implementation, offers a potential locus around which global security discourse might converge, particularly in light of current shifts in US security thinking. However, key pioneers of human security, such as the United Nations and Canada, appear to be losing their enthusiasm for the concept, just at the moment when others such as the European Union, are advancing a human security agenda. This article examines the divergence of human security narratives between the UN and the EU. It argues that the UN's use of the concept ran aground owing to a triple problematic of lack of clarity, confusion between previously distinct policy streams on human rights and human development and conceptual overstretch. After assessing the EU experience with the concept to date, the article argues that future use of human security will require greater focus on how it deepens ideas of individual security, rather than treating it as an agenda for broadening security. As well as a need to project clarity on the conceptual definition of human security, there is also a need to associate human security with greater clarity of intent. If successful, this would contribute to establishing second generation human security as a new policy paradigm
CLARITY · Cloud computing security · Critical security studies · Enthusiasm · Human rights · Human security · Narrative · Network security policy · Political science · Security information and event management · Security studies · Security through obscurity · Sociology · Global Peace and Security Dynamics · Global Security and Public Health · Law · Peacebuilding and International Security · Psychology · Public Administration · Social Psychology
The Cyclical Nature of Maritime Security Threats
The EU's Responses to Conflicts in its Wider Neighbourhood
Moving Development and Security Narratives a Step Further
Säkra vems hälsa för vem? – Problematisering av nexuset hälsa och säkerhet
The Nexus Between Security Sector Governance/Reform and Sustainable Development Goal-16
What is maritime security?
Toward a Vernacular Security Studies
Slow Progress on UN Rapid Deployment
Non-state Armed Groups as a Threat to Global Security
Political narrative, collective EU security and the State of the Union
Arkipäivän digitaalinen turvallisuus Euroopan pohjoisilla alueilla
Regional differences and driving factors of population security in China's border areas from the location perspective
Human and national security
Human Security
Wielding the spiritual sword again
More Than a Crime
The UN Security Council and Human Rights
Critical Human Security, State Capacity, and Post-Pandemic Policy Challenges in Europe and East Asia
The crisis of liberal peacebuilding and the future of statebuilding
Human security's future in regional cooperation and governance
The missing link in human security research
Development and security in international aid to North Korea
Resilience and human security
Human security in EU strategy
Operationalizing Human Security
Human security benchmarks
Civil-military relations and human security in a post-dictatorship
Human Security
Living by Example?’ The European Union and the Implementation of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P)
Explaining the Advocacy Agenda
No emancipatory alternative, no critical security studies
Subalternization of the global south
| Unique citing works | 32 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,13 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2025 (15) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 28 |