<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>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.</p></abstract>

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.

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

International Relations and International Territorial Studies

Phillips–Universität in Marburg and Technical University of Dresden

Politics in Central Europe

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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...

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

Publié en ligne: 16 mars 2019

Pages: 75 - 99

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/pce-2018-0019

Mots clés
human security, dissemination of an idea, United Nations, Canada, Japan

© 2018 Šárka Waisová, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

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

Publié en ligne: 16 mars 2019

Pages: 75 - 99

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/pce-2018-0019

Mots cléshuman security, dissemination of an idea, United Nations, Canada, Japan

© 2018 Šárka Waisová, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Mots clés
human security, dissemination of an idea, United Nations, Canada, Japan