A New Scientific Field and Policy Lens

Axworthy, Lloyd

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“…First, while some analysts perceive that human security is not an analytically useful concept, there are many others who do (Axworthy 2004;Hubert 2004;Acharya 2004). Moreover, we do not necessarily "throw the baby out with the bathwater" just because certain concepts are deemed to be less than clear or useful to everyone.…”

Section: The Concept Of Human Securitymentioning

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Japan´ s Human Security Role in Southeast Asia

Er¹

2006

Contemporary Southeast Asia

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Japan is playing an active human security role in post-Cold War Southeast Asia, especially in crises where thousands of lives are at stake, displaced, or even lost. This approach includes: providing massive financial assistance to the region during the 1997-98 Asian financial crisis, engaging in peacemaking in Cambodia and Aceh, peacebuilding in East Timor, Aceh, and Mindanao, offering financial and medical assistance when East Asia was hit by the SARS epidemic, and deploying the largest contingent of Japanese troops since the end of World War II for humanitarian assistance to tsunami-stricken Aceh in early 2005. A broad human security framework which encompasses peacemaking, post-conflict peacebuilding, and the dispatch of troops for humanitarian relief in Southeast Asia allows Japan to not only play a more active political role but also to avoid being branded as an aspiring military power by its domestic and international critics.

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Section: The Concept Of Human Securitymentioning

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Japan´ s Human Security Role in Southeast Asia

Er¹

2006

Contemporary Southeast Asia

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“…25 In the same vein, he advocated "grounding the human security agenda in sound fact-for example, knowledge of the pathology of small weapons, the health impact of conflicts, etc." 26 The definition of human security as freedom from fear leads precisely to defining "a narrower category of situations that become intolerably insecure" as "one of the criteria for deciding to deploy operational capacities." 29 From Roosevelt, to the Barcelona Study Group, to Axworthy, the freedom-from-fear approach has rested on an ambiguity.…”

Section: Emergency and Safety: Remilitarizing Human Securitymentioning

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Utopias of Power: From Human Security to the Responsibility to Protect

Makaremi

2019

Militarization

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“…Since the late 1990s, human security has become a popular and broadly discussed issue in the realm of international relations. Policy-makers such as the Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs Lloyd Axworthy have promoted the concept of human security (Axworthy 2004). Likewise, scholars have engaged in the analysis of human-security thinking (McCormack 2008;Paris 2001;Newman 2010;Newman 2001;Henk 2005) and have explored security issues in the context of the human-security concept (Curley and Thomas 2004;Nishikawa 2009;Peou 2005).…”

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The State Actor in Human-Security Issues: A Study of Cambodia and Indonesia

Chu¹

2015

AISR

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Human security has become a popular issue in the realm of international relations, particularly since The Human Development Report 1994 was published by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). Some research on the subject has acknowledged that individual states are essential actors in achieving human security. This article considers the context of Southeast Asia and explores the case studies of the Cambodian and Indonesian governments, to address their respective domestic human-security issues. To this end, this article considers the modern political histories of Cambodia and Indonesia from a comparative perspective. The article concludes that as a state becomes more democratic its people are likely to have more human security.

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A New Scientific Field and Policy Lens

Cited by 23 publications

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Japan´ s Human Security Role in Southeast Asia

Japan´ s Human Security Role in Southeast Asia

Utopias of Power: From Human Security to the Responsibility to Protect

The State Actor in Human-Security Issues: A Study of Cambodia and Indonesia

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