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Research Handbook on International Law and Human Security
This comprehensive Research Handbook considers the place of human security, both in practice and as a concept within international law, examining the preconditions for and consequences of applying human security to international legal thinking and practice. It also proposes a future international law in which human security is central to the law’s purpose.
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Critical Acclaim
Contributors
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This comprehensive Research Handbook considers the place of human security, both in practice and as a concept within international law, examining the preconditions for and consequences of applying human security to international legal thinking and practice. It also proposes a future international law in which human security is central to the law’s purpose.
Contributions by leading authors in the field critically engage with 25 years of human security practice in different areas of international law and explore the challenges, successes and setbacks of realising human security in a state-based international legal order whilst re-conceptualizing central elements of international law from a human security perspective. Organised around six core themes, the Research Handbook shows how human security can be used as an overarching framework to preserve peace, protect people and counter vulnerability through international law.
Progressive and engaging, this Research Handbook will be a key resource for scholars and students of public international law, security, and international relations, who wish to further their knowledge of human security as the central purpose of international law.
Contributions by leading authors in the field critically engage with 25 years of human security practice in different areas of international law and explore the challenges, successes and setbacks of realising human security in a state-based international legal order whilst re-conceptualizing central elements of international law from a human security perspective. Organised around six core themes, the Research Handbook shows how human security can be used as an overarching framework to preserve peace, protect people and counter vulnerability through international law.
Progressive and engaging, this Research Handbook will be a key resource for scholars and students of public international law, security, and international relations, who wish to further their knowledge of human security as the central purpose of international law.
Critical Acclaim
‘The principles and values of human security are as relevant as they ever were to the challenges faced by the world, but the obstacles to human security remain formidable in an inhospitable political environment. This collection, bringing together scholars from across the globe, presents original and insightful perspectives on a range of themes related to human security, with an emphasis upon international law. It genuinely takes the human security debate forward, and it is an excellent resource for researchers, students and policy analysts.’
– Edward Newman, University of Leeds, UK and Former UN official, United Nations University
– Edward Newman, University of Leeds, UK and Former UN official, United Nations University
Contributors
Contributors: Elizabeth Abi-Mershed, Wolfgang Benedek, Miriam Bradley, Dug Cubie, Shireen Daft, Alistair D. Edgar, Dorothy Estrada-Tanck, Susana Ferreira, Lisa Forman, Denise Garcia, Des Gasper, Oscar A. Gómez, Verónica Gómez, Pierre Hauck, Matthew Kang, Samuel M. Makinda, Rashida Manjoo, Benoît Mayer, James Meernik, Yoichi Mine, Ako Muto, Hitoshi Nasu, Laura Neack, Gerd Oberleitner, F. Wafula Okumu, Sven Peterke, Sahana Ramdas, Iavor Rangelov, Cedric Ryngaert, Dahlia Simangan, Gabriela Steier
Contents
Contents:
Editor and contributors viii
Introduction 1
Gerd Oberleitner
PART I UNDERSTANDING HUMAN SECURITY IN
INTERNATIONAL LAW: CONCEPT, PRACTICE, ACTORS
1 Human security and international law: why? how? 25
Shireen Daft
2 Security: national, international, human 40
Laura Neack
3 Human security and the United Nations 59
Alistair D. Edgar
4 Human security and non-state actors 75
Cedric Ryngaert
PART II HUMAN SECURITY: PRESERVING PEACE AND
PROTECTING PEOPLE
5 The Security Council: collective security and peacekeeping for human security 92
Hitoshi Nasu
6 Human security in armed conflict: norms, agendas and actors for
protecting civilians 107
Miriam Bradley
7 Attaining human security by disarming 126
Denise Garcia
8 Managing transition and building peace from a human security perspective 145
Dahlia Simangan
PART III PERSONAL SECURITY, HUMAN DIGNITY AND GLOBAL JUSTICE
9 Human rights and human security 162
Wolfgang Benedek
10 Transnational organised crime and terrorism as human security threats:
international law’s response 180
Sven Peterke and Pierre Hauck
11 Freedom from fear and freedom from want: key components of human
security for women 208
Rashida Manjoo
12 The impacts of the International Criminal Tribunals on human security
and human rights 226
James Meernik
PART IV HUMAN SECURITY: CONFRONTING RISK,
VULNERABILITY AND EXISTENTIAL CRISIS
13 Climate change as a human security crisis? 243
Benoit Mayer
14 Complementarity between human security and legal frameworks for
humanitarian action 259
Dug Cubie
15 Human (in)security in transnational migration, refugee situations and
internal displacement 273
Susana Ferreira
PART V SOCIO-ECONOMIC HUMAN SECURITY IN AGENDA 2030
16 Human security, the UN development system and the SDGs 290
Des Gasper and Oscar A. Gómez
17 Human security: countering structural inequality and fostering
resilience under international law 306
Dorothy Estrada-Tanck
18 Food security and the right to food: pillars of humanity arising from
food and agriculture law 321
Gabriela Steier, Matthew Kang and Sahana Ramdas
19 Global health law: WHO, COVID-19, and human security 341
Lisa Forman
PART VI REGIONAL HUMAN SECURITY PERSPECTIVES
20 Human security in Europe: the European Union and beyond 359
Iavor Rangelov
21 Human security: a Latin American perspective 375
Elizabeth Abi-Mershed and Verónica Gómez
22 The African Union as a human security arrangement 388
Samuel M. Makinda and F. Wafula Okumu
23 The emerging human security norm in East Asia: toward an epistemic
community 406
Yoichi Mine and Ako Muto
Index
Editor and contributors viii
Introduction 1
Gerd Oberleitner
PART I UNDERSTANDING HUMAN SECURITY IN
INTERNATIONAL LAW: CONCEPT, PRACTICE, ACTORS
1 Human security and international law: why? how? 25
Shireen Daft
2 Security: national, international, human 40
Laura Neack
3 Human security and the United Nations 59
Alistair D. Edgar
4 Human security and non-state actors 75
Cedric Ryngaert
PART II HUMAN SECURITY: PRESERVING PEACE AND
PROTECTING PEOPLE
5 The Security Council: collective security and peacekeeping for human security 92
Hitoshi Nasu
6 Human security in armed conflict: norms, agendas and actors for
protecting civilians 107
Miriam Bradley
7 Attaining human security by disarming 126
Denise Garcia
8 Managing transition and building peace from a human security perspective 145
Dahlia Simangan
PART III PERSONAL SECURITY, HUMAN DIGNITY AND GLOBAL JUSTICE
9 Human rights and human security 162
Wolfgang Benedek
10 Transnational organised crime and terrorism as human security threats:
international law’s response 180
Sven Peterke and Pierre Hauck
11 Freedom from fear and freedom from want: key components of human
security for women 208
Rashida Manjoo
12 The impacts of the International Criminal Tribunals on human security
and human rights 226
James Meernik
PART IV HUMAN SECURITY: CONFRONTING RISK,
VULNERABILITY AND EXISTENTIAL CRISIS
13 Climate change as a human security crisis? 243
Benoit Mayer
14 Complementarity between human security and legal frameworks for
humanitarian action 259
Dug Cubie
15 Human (in)security in transnational migration, refugee situations and
internal displacement 273
Susana Ferreira
PART V SOCIO-ECONOMIC HUMAN SECURITY IN AGENDA 2030
16 Human security, the UN development system and the SDGs 290
Des Gasper and Oscar A. Gómez
17 Human security: countering structural inequality and fostering
resilience under international law 306
Dorothy Estrada-Tanck
18 Food security and the right to food: pillars of humanity arising from
food and agriculture law 321
Gabriela Steier, Matthew Kang and Sahana Ramdas
19 Global health law: WHO, COVID-19, and human security 341
Lisa Forman
PART VI REGIONAL HUMAN SECURITY PERSPECTIVES
20 Human security in Europe: the European Union and beyond 359
Iavor Rangelov
21 Human security: a Latin American perspective 375
Elizabeth Abi-Mershed and Verónica Gómez
22 The African Union as a human security arrangement 388
Samuel M. Makinda and F. Wafula Okumu
23 The emerging human security norm in East Asia: toward an epistemic
community 406
Yoichi Mine and Ako Muto
Index
