HUMAN SECURITY IN TRADITIONAL SECURITY THEORIES – CHALLENGES AND PERSPECTIVES
HUMAN SECURITY IN TRADITIONAL SECURITY THEORIES – CHALLENGES AND PERSPECTIVES

Author(s): Duško Vejnović, Predrag Obrenović
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Politics, Security and defense, Secret Service / Secret Police
Published by: Institut za strategijska istraživanja
Keywords: human security; realism; neorealism; liberalism; neoliberalism; challenges; perspectives
Summary/Abstract: Since the mid-1990s, the concept of human helplessness has begun to appear in almost all theoretical discussions of the modern approach to security as one of the pressing problems. Today, after almost less than three decades, human security has become a key factor that is considered in almost all professional and scientific works all over the world, from the well- known position that security is a basic human need, a basic human value and the strongest guaranteed safety. It has become a key factor in preserving security, both at local level, at community level, and at regional level, and one could say at global level, as well. Today, there is almost no national defense strategy that does not pay special attention to the concept of human security. Using scientific methods, primarily induction, then deduction, as well as description and comparison, we would like to point out that traditional theories of security such as realism, neorealism, especially liberalism and neoliberalism, indicate special importance to the individual. In addition to considering the concept of human security in traditional theories of security, this paper aims to point out the challenges and perspectives of further theoretical consideration of the concept of human security in modern society, which is increasingly characterized by multipolarity along with modern technical and technological development, based on such an analysis.

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