HUMAN SECURITY AND THE “RIGHTFUL STATE”
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.15837/aijjs.v8i2.1189Abstract
The article is based on the idea that human security concept should be understood as an
open one, accepted in its broad definition and definitely not in its narrow terms because the
variety and multilevel forms of threats to human security can manifest in manners hard to
anticipate. The main challenge in promoting human security concept internationally lies in its
power to deconstruct the principle of state sovereignty which is the key-stone of the
contemporary international system and of international law and that’s the reluctance to
accepting it. But if there weren’t bad states, the human security concept wouldn’t have emerged.
The point we intend to advance is that defining human security restrictively might imply
legitimating sovereignty for “bad” countries in which corruption is endemic and where groups
of people who achieved power by “negative selection mechanisms” perpetrates human
insecurity rather than security.
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