Rethinking the “State Security-Human Security” Nexus in the Face of COVID-19

2022 ◽  
pp. 109-123
Author(s):  
Sirin Duygulu
Keyword(s):  
International Security ◽  
Resistance To Change ◽  
Human Security ◽  
The State ◽  
State Security ◽  
The Face

It is the argument of this chapter that the COVID-19 pandemic created a need to problematize how we understand security, especially the contrast between state security and human security. This chapter argues that the pandemic has illustrated the importance of human security as well as the need to understand it as a precondition for, and not as an alternative to, state and international security. However, the study does not argue that the increased importance of human security translates into the protection of all humans. The crude reality that security is always at someone's and something's expense sustains vulnerabilities within societies. The study acknowledges that the changes in the security implications (both material and perceived) do not necessarily or automatically translate to changes in policies. Institutional resistance to change and general political trends among other factors affect the extent to which policies will evolve in a direction that would better meet the security implications of the pandemic.

Critical human security studies

2010 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-94 ◽  
Author(s):  
EDWARD NEWMAN
Keyword(s):  
International Security ◽  
Security Analysis ◽  
Human Security ◽  
The State ◽  
Security Studies ◽  
Critical Security Studies ◽  
External Threats ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Distinct Approach

AbstractFrom a critical security studies perspective – and non-traditional security studies more broadly – is the concept of human security something which should be taken seriously? Does human security have anything significant to offer security studies? Both human security and critical security studies challenge the state-centric orthodoxy of conventional international security, based upon military defence of territory against ‘external’ threats. Both also challenge neorealist scholarship, and involve broadening and deepening the security agenda. Yet critical security studies have not engaged substantively with human security as a distinct approach to non-traditional security. This article explores the relationship between human security and critical security studies and considers why human security arguments – which privilege the individual as the referent of security analysis and seek to directly influence policy in this regard – have not made a significant impact in critical security studies. The article suggests a number of ways in which critical and human security studies might engage. In particular, it suggests that human security scholarship must go beyond its (mostly) uncritical conceptual underpinnings if it is to make a lasting impact upon security studies, and this might be envisioned as Critical Human Security Studies (CHSS).

scholarly journals STATE DEFENSE EDUCATION AS A COURSE IN UNIVERSITY

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jerry Indrawan ◽  
M. Prakoso Aji
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Human Security ◽  
Education Level ◽  
Military Education ◽  
The State ◽  
Social Culture ◽  
State Security ◽  
State Defense

<p>Indonesia currently faces multidimensional threats, from small to large, concerning all aspects of the country's life, from ideology, politics, economics, social, culture, defense, and security. The nature of contemporary threat has a human security aspect rather than only state security. As such, a thorough effort is needed to deal with those Threats, Disruption, Obstacle, Challenge (TDOC). State defense can be the answer to such problems because state defense itself can be interpreted as an obligation and responsibility of citizens to maintain the existence and sovereignty of the state. State defense will be optimal if disseminated through formal education. In this case, the formal education in question is at the level of higher education. This paper proposes that state defense can be held at higher education level in the form of university compulsory course, and is organized under the name State Defense Education. This State Defense Education is not military education or conscription, but an education that is adjusted to the condition and nuance of higher education.</p><p><strong>Keywords:</strong> Threat, Human Security, State Defense, and State Defense Education</p>

scholarly journals STATE ACTION AS AN INDIVIDUAL SECURITY THREAT IN CASE OF CYBERCRIME SECURITIZATION

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 77
Author(s):  
Miftah Farid ◽  
Ajeng Ayu Adhisty
Keyword(s):  
State Policy ◽  
International Security ◽  
Technology Development ◽  
Human Security ◽  
The United States ◽  
Security Threat ◽  
Security Issue ◽  
Object State ◽  
State Security ◽  
Individual Security

<p>In the current security concept, there are some changes to the current security object. This is due to the increasingly broad understanding of security objects.  This study examines the emergence of cyber issues as a new threat to state security. Cyber actions in the virtual world are developing along with the rapid technology development. Moreover, the state policy on cyber issues is considered as a new threat to individual security. The development of that state security issue is being debated among the theoreticians of international security studies. The concept of securitization explains the phenomenon of cyber issues and receives the attention of many states. Securitization carried out by the United States on Cybercrime issues becomes the initial trigger in viewing cyber actions as a new threat to state security. The object of this paper is more focused on State policy in dealing with cyber threats. Afterward, state policy in facing the cyber threat is seen from the perspective of human security from UNDP. Therefore, there is a debate about the desired security object. State actions to reach state security are then considered as individual privacy security. So, international security now does not only focus on state objects but also on individual, environment, economy, and identity. Thus, every action taken in securing an object does not pose a threat to other security objects.</p><div><p class="Els-keywords">Keywords: Cybercrime, State Security, Human Security, Securitization</p></div>

scholarly journals STATE SECURITY AND HUMAN SECURITY IN BORDER MANAGEMENT

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (01) ◽  
pp. 23-36
Author(s):  
Haunan Fachry Rohilie
Keyword(s):  
Human Security ◽  
The State ◽  
State Sovereignty ◽  
Human Needs ◽  
State Security ◽  
External Threats ◽  
Basic Human Needs

This study tries to see how the condition borders region between Indonesia and Malaysia, in Ketungau Hulu subdistrict. Analysis is conducted to see how the borders management in Indonesia with two approaches. The first approach is the analysis of State Security used to see how the treatment of the state to maintain state sovereignty from the external threats that dominated by military. The second approach is the analysis of Human Security which is more emphasis on the security of citizens as seen from the fulfillment of basic human needs, both in terms of welfare, education, health, and so forth.

The Concept of the Process of Qualification to State Security Service

2019 ◽  
Vol 35 (35) ◽  
pp. 37-53
Author(s):  
Tomasz Goryca
Keyword(s):  
Selection Process ◽  
The State ◽  
Theoretical Research ◽  
Security Threats ◽  
Recruitment Process ◽  
Protective Measures ◽  
State Security ◽  
Security Service ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Government

The aim of the study is to present the concept of the process of qualification to service in State Security Service, which was established on February 1, 2018 in lieu of the Government Protection Bureau. All requirements for candidates participating in the recruitment process to State Security Service are set out by relevant laws and ordinances of the Minister of Interior and Administration. The specificity of tasks carried out by the officers of the State Security Service requires superior physical fitness, high resistance to stressful situations and teamwork skills. The units responsible for recruitment make high demands on candidates in the face of changing security threats for the most important people in the state. Properly conducted recruitment process let the units to select the best candidates for officers who will ensure the highest standards of implementation of protective measures in the country as well as abroad. The article presents the author’s concept of such a process. For this purpose, theoretical research methods were used and documents related to the selection process for the State Security Service were analysed.

Yu.F. Samarin’s Model of the National State: Between Archaic and Modern

2019 ◽  
Vol 54 ◽  
pp. 149-155
Author(s):  
Alexey B. Panchenko
Keyword(s):  
Rural Community ◽  
Fundamental Difference ◽  
The State ◽  
Basic Unit ◽  
National State ◽  
Basic Model ◽  
The Face ◽  
Identical Position ◽  
Ethnocultural Community ◽  
Communicative Space

Yu. F. Samarin’s works are traditionally viewed through the prism of his affiliation with Slavophilism. His view of the state is opposed to the idea of the complex empire based on unequal interaction of the central power with the elite of national districts. At the same time it was important for Samarin to see the nation not as an ethnocultural community, but as classless community of equal citizens, who were in identical position in the face of the emperor. Samarin’s attitude to religion and nationality had pragmatic character and were understood as means for the creation of the uniform communicative space inside the state. This position for the most part conformed with the framework of the national state basic model, however there still existed one fundamental difference. Samarin considered not an individual, but the rural community that owned the land, to be the basic unit of the national state. As the result the model of national state was viewed as the synthesis of modernistic (classlessness, pragmatism, equality) and archaic (communality) features.

How to Define the Czechoslovak Underground

2018 ◽  
Vol 56 (3) ◽  
pp. 42-46
Author(s):  
Barbara Bothová
Keyword(s):  
Significant Influence ◽  
The State ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
The West ◽  
State Security ◽  
The Third ◽  
Key Events

What is an underground? Is it possible to embed this particular way of life into any definition? After all, even underground did not have the need to define itself at the beginning. The presented text represents a brief reflection of the development of underground in Czechoslovakia; attention is paid to the impulses from the West, which had a significant influence on the underground. The text focuses on the key events that influenced the underground. For example, the “Hairies (Vlasatci)” Action, which took place in 1966, and the State Security activity in Rudolfov in 1974. The event in Rudolfov was an imaginary landmark and led to the writing of a manifesto that came into history as the “Report on the Third Czech Musical Revival.”

The Prophetic Voice of the Church in a Democratic South Africa – A Theological Reflection

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lufuluvhi Maria Mudimeli
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Economic Transformation ◽  
The State ◽  
Black Liberation ◽  
South Africans ◽  
Black Liberation Theology ◽  
Prophetic Voice ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Church

This article is a reflection on the role and contribution of the church in a democratic South Africa. The involvement of the church in the struggle against apartheid is revisited briefly. The church has played a pivotal and prominent role in bringing about democracy by being a prophetic voice that could not be silenced even in the face of death. It is in this time of democracy when real transformation is needed to take its course in a realistic way, where the presence of the church has probably been latent and where it has assumed an observer status. A look is taken at the dilemmas facing the church. The church should not be bound and taken captive by any form of loyalty to any political organisation at the expense of the poor and the voiceless. A need for cooperation and partnership between the church and the state is crucial at this time. This paper strives to address the role of the church as a prophetic voice in a democratic South Africa. Radical economic transformation, inequality, corruption, and moral decadence—all these challenges hold the potential to thwart our young democracy and its ideals. Black liberation theology concepts are employed to explore how the church can become prophetically relevant in democracy. Suggestions are made about how the church and the state can best form partnerships. In avoiding taking only a critical stance, the church could fulfil its mandate “in season and out of season” and continue to be a prophetic voice on behalf of ordinary South Africans.

ПРОТИВОДЕЙСТВИЕ ТРАНСНАЦИОНАЛЬНОЙ ЭКСТРЕМИСТСКОЙ ДЕЯТЕЛЬНОСТИ

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victoria Solomonova
Keyword(s):  
Russian Federation ◽  
The State ◽  
State Security ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
The Russian Federation

В данной статье рассматривается сущность противодействия экстремизму, как основополагающая роль государственной безопасности Российской Федерации, методы и действия направленные на пресечение распространения экстремистской деятельности на территории Российской Федерации, а также за ее пределами.This article examines the essence of countering extremism as a fundamental role of the state security of the Russian Federation, methods and actions aimed at suppressing the spread of extremist activities on the territory of the Russian Federation, as well as beyond its borders.

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