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Indiana Human Security and the UN A Critical History 2006 Edition by S. Neil MacFarlane, Yuen Foong Khong
How did the individual human being become the focus of the contemporary discourse on security? What was the role of the United Nations in "securing" the individual? What are the payoffs and costs of this extension of the concept? Neil MacFarlane and Yuen Foong Khong tackle these questions by analyzing historical and contemporary debates about what is to be secured. From Westphalia through the 19th century, the state's claim to be the object of security was sustainable because it offered its subjects some measure of protection. The state's ability to provide security for its citizens came under heavy strain in the 20th century as a result of technological, strategic, and ideological innovations. By the end of World War II, efforts to reclaim the security rights of individuals gathered pace, as seen in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and a host of United Nations covenants and conventions. MacFarlane and Khong highlight the UN's work in promoting human security ideas since the 1940s, giving special emphasis to its role in extending the notion of security to include development, economic, environmental, and other issues in the 1990s. Table of contents : - Foreword by Louis Emmerij, Richard Jolly, and Thomas G. WeissAcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsIntroductionPart I. The Archaeology of Human Security1. The Prehistory of Human Security2. The UN and Human Security during the Cold War3. The Evolving Critique of National SecurityPart II. The Emergence of Human Security4. The UN and Human Security: The Development Dimension5. The UN and Human Security: The Protection Dimension6. Human Security and the Protection of Vulnerable Groups7. Human Security and the UN: A CritiqueConclusionNotesIndexAbout the AuthorsAbout the United Nations Intellectual History Project