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Hassan, Oz (2015) Political security : from the 1990s to the Arab Spring. Contemporary Politics, 21 (1). pp. 86-99. doi:10.1080/13569775.2014.993907 ISSN 1356-9775.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13569775.2014.993907
Abstract
The 1994 Human Development Report (HDR) set out the definition and parameters of political security in fewer than 400 words. It was defined as the prevention of government repression, systematic violation of human rights and threats from militarization. This was intended to establish an agenda that would protect people against states that continued to practice political repression, systematic torture, ill treatment and disappearance. Yet, the concept of political security has evolved in both theory and practice. This has been done through an ongoing debate, which has been shaped more by immediate crises and the practice of international relations, than the parameters set out in the 1994 HDR report. In practice, achieving the ambitions of the political security agenda has become tied to questions of humanitarian assistance and intervention. This was narrowly interpreted throughout the 1990s as a debate surrounding the nature and legitimacy of humanitarian intervention. In the 2000s, this was institutionalized into a Responsibility to Protect agenda, only to see the second decade of the twenty-first century reveal the need for a far more complex and nuanced debate about how this should be carried out.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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Subjects: | J Political Science > JC Political theory | ||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Politics and International Studies | ||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Humanitarian assistance, Human security, Arab Spring, 2010- | ||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Contemporary Politics | ||||
Publisher: | Routledge | ||||
ISSN: | 1356-9775 | ||||
Official Date: | 19 January 2015 | ||||
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Volume: | 21 | ||||
Number: | 1 | ||||
Number of Pages: | 14 | ||||
Page Range: | pp. 86-99 | ||||
DOI: | 10.1080/13569775.2014.993907 | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 21 March 2016 | ||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 21 March 2016 |
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