Human Security and Peace-Building in the Western Balkans

  • Svetlana Djurdjevic-Lukic
  • Vojin Dimitrijević
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Abstract

The issue of security has preoccupied the theory and practice of international relations. It has very frequently amounted to an obsession for politicians in general and foreign policy decision makers in particular. For a long time the concept of security in the political discourse and the discourse of political science was the security of the state as an organization or an organism, or as a person in international law. Generally, security is the absence of danger. The goal of the security of the state, which has most of the time been labelled as ‘national security’, has been to create a situation were the state in the above sense would be free of any threats, or at least capable of countering these threats in time. The state-centric concept of national security has not been concerned with the circumstances of persons or groups inhabiting a particular state and ignorant of the possible threats to the existence, values and interests of the population in general or relevant parts thereof. There have been many instances where, in the name of national security, national political leaders and their partners from other states were willing to tolerate extreme human suffering, oppression, poverty, famine or other calamities in the name of the defence of national security. There have also been instances when states collapsed in the presence of very strong national armies and formidable security services.

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Organize Crime Security Council International Criminal Court United Nations Development Programme Human Security 
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Svetlana Djurdjevic-Lukic
    • 1
  • Vojin Dimitrijević
  1. 1.Institute of International Politics and EconomicsUSA

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