CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2024
| Author | Abdulkhaev, Amir |
|---|---|
| Title | Deepening the Notion of Security: Using the Human Security Approach to Better Account for Security in the 21st Century |
| Summary | Human security is a new strand of security studies that brings the individual to the forefront. Because of its focus, this approach has great potential for security studies, however, it is too heterogeneous and includes too many concepts. This has led to an academic debate on whether it can be applied in practice. At the same time, a literature review shows that only a few papers empirically demonstrate how its application can improve or worsen academic and practical understanding of security. Given the above, this thesis will empirically investigate whether and how exactly human security can help better account for security threats. It will argue that the human security approach, by expanding the concept of security and promoting traditionally neglected aspects, can better account for security in contemporary realities. To achieve this goal, the thesis builds on existing human security concepts but advances, expands and sometimes criticises them, creating its own multifaceted and in-depth human security framework. Most importantly, this work will empirically identify which concrete elements of the human security approach are most suitable to better conceptualise and implement security. To do so, the thesis will apply the presented framework to two case studies of Rwanda and Ukraine, where the issue of human security is particularly acute. Based on empirical evidence from interviews and fieldwork conducted by specialists in these countries, it will show how the specific concepts of the presented framework have proved to be important in practice. |
| Supervisor | Roe, Paul |
| Department | International Relations MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2024/abdulkhaev_amir.pdf |
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