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This chapter offers a theoretical introduction to the book. It provides an interdisciplinary theoretical framework in which the key aspects of human security are systematically laid out: types of threats from physical, living and social systems; causal structures that produce threats to human security; instruments to deal with these threats; and issues of agency to protect human security. Stressing the importance of responsible sovereign states as crucial agents to protect human security, this paper also argues that, given the global and interconnected nature of human security threats, cooperation among various stakeholders is essential.
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Tanaka, A. (2019). Toward a Theory of Human Security. In: Hernandez, C., Kim, E., Mine, Y., Xiao, R. (eds) Human Security and Cross-Border Cooperation in East Asia. Security, Development and Human Rights in East Asia. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95240-6_2
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