Human Security: An Analysis of the Dissemination of an Idea in World Politics

The study considers the dissemination of the idea of human security including the means – trajectories and spaces – by which it has been spread and reproduced in international politics. My aim is to illuminate the agents behind this dissemination, the ways that the concept has been shared and the in...

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Autor principal:	Waisová Šárka
Formato:	article
Lenguaje:	CS EN SK
Publicado:	Sciendo 2018
Materias:	human security dissemination of an idea united nations canada japan Political science J
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:ffa9dc0a78e34ac1acc2992bd69f1b532021-12-02T15:27:55ZHuman Security: An Analysis of the Dissemination of an Idea in World Politics1801-342210.2478/pce-2018-0019https://doaj.org/article/ffa9dc0a78e34ac1acc2992bd69f1b532018-12-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.2478/pce-2018-0019https://doaj.org/toc/1801-3422The study considers the dissemination of the idea of human security including the means – trajectories and spaces – by which it has been spread and reproduced in international politics. My aim is to illuminate the agents behind this dissemination, the ways that the concept has been shared and the intellectual and institutional frameworks that have enabled its existence. I conclude that the idea of human security arose from the UN system, particularly the United Nations Development Programme’s offices. It was disseminated with the assistance of “human security friends,” i.e. Japan, Canada and Norway and several prominent scholars, high-ranking policy-makers and UN officers. Nevertheless, despite these efforts, human security has not found a following worldwide. It was embedded in part of the UN system where it has remained powerful and been reproduced. Outside the UN system, however, even its most active and devoted promoters have abandoned the concept. The number of these supporters has dwindled, the idea has lost its power and the spaces where it is reproduced are limited.Waisová ŠárkaSciendoarticlehuman securitydissemination of an ideaunited nationscanadajapanPolitical scienceJCSENSKPolitics in Central Europe, Vol 14, Iss 3, Pp 75-99 (2018)
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description	The study considers the dissemination of the idea of human security including the means – trajectories and spaces – by which it has been spread and reproduced in international politics. My aim is to illuminate the agents behind this dissemination, the ways that the concept has been shared and the intellectual and institutional frameworks that have enabled its existence. I conclude that the idea of human security arose from the UN system, particularly the United Nations Development Programme’s offices. It was disseminated with the assistance of “human security friends,” i.e. Japan, Canada and Norway and several prominent scholars, high-ranking policy-makers and UN officers. Nevertheless, despite these efforts, human security has not found a following worldwide. It was embedded in part of the UN system where it has remained powerful and been reproduced. Outside the UN system, however, even its most active and devoted promoters have abandoned the concept. The number of these supporters has dwindled, the idea has lost its power and the spaces where it is reproduced are limited.
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title	Human Security: An Analysis of the Dissemination of an Idea in World Politics
title_short	Human Security: An Analysis of the Dissemination of an Idea in World Politics
title_full	Human Security: An Analysis of the Dissemination of an Idea in World Politics
title_fullStr	Human Security: An Analysis of the Dissemination of an Idea in World Politics
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Human Security: An Analysis of the Dissemination of an Idea in World Politics

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