CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2015
| Author | Kerekes, Éva Erika |
|---|---|
| Title | The Security of Us or Them? Reconsidering Human Security and Biopolitics in the Post-Cold War Era |
| Summary | Human security is a powerful language to talk about security after the Cold War era that aims at placing individuals and their multidimensional vulnerabilities to the centre of inquiry. However, as the biopolitical critique points out, human security and state practices in the name of it are embedded to the new power relations and the new problematization of security, as a result development efforts to help people becomes a technology of security. The thesis contributes to the literature on the biopolitical interpretation of human security, and aims at conceptually refining its historical view, especially based on Mark Duffield’s works to get a better understanding of the current world order and the promises of human security. This refinement shows how the security considerations of the powerful North have continued to dominate development efforts, thus the unbalancing effects of 9/11 on the ‘security of us’ versus ‘security of them’ dynamics was not as powerful as scholars tend to suggest. To support the conceptual claims, the thesis presents empirical moments to highlight how the self-regarding security seeking behaviour perpetuated and influenced human security technologies after the Cold War, and how the politicized relationship with governments to support biopolitical technologies served the interest of the North rather than the people living in the global South. |
| Supervisor | Roe, Paul Richard |
| Department | International Relations MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2015/kerekes_eva.pdf |
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