Introduction: Human Security Development and the Future of East Asia

Abstract

The security of states is essential, but not suffi cient, to fully ensure the safety and well-being of the world's peoples.

Human Security as an Instrument of (Traditional) Comprehensive Security in Japan, South Korea and Taiwan

“…Several commentators have seen parallels between Japan's concept of comprehensive security and human security, and therefore the intrinsic "Asianess" of the human security concept (Guan 2012). Most notably, Acharya (2001: 451) argued that comprehensive security is the nearest conceptually to human security, and that comprehensive security "can claim even stronger Asian roots because it was developed by Japan."…”