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Premise conceptuale pentru o înțelegere a securității umane
Conceptual premises for understanding the human security

Author(s): Bogdan Ştefanachi
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences
Published by: Fundaţia »Societatea Civilă« (FSC)
Keywords: security; human security; post-positivism; normative utility; responsibility

Summary/Abstract: In the framework of globalization, it is possible to conceive an alternative discourse regarding the statute of individual in international relations. This new narrative – a post-positivist one – transforms the individual in the referent object of security. The study stresses the main theoretical transformations appeared within the post-positivist framework of analysis in order to identify the central components of the new understanding of security – human security.

  • Issue Year: XX/2012
  • Issue No: 172
  • Page Range: 97-105
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: Romanian