Why does global human security need to be emphasized along with economic security? Explain with examples.
How the answer moves
The flow snapshot — the routes in, the body, the counter-view and the routes out.
Route 1 traditional/economic security is state- and income-centred → human security shifts the referent to the individual (freedom from fear, want, indignity) → the two are not interchangeable
Route 2 a country can grow and guard its borders yet its people stay unsafe → income ≠ dignity or safety → human security must sit alongside economic security
referent shift (state → individual) → Truong: economically secure states, insecure people → working-woman example (earns well, faces harassment) → comprehensive dimensions (economic/food/health/environmental/personal/community/political) → Buzan’s interconnected sectors (threat in one spreads) → Tickner’s feminist critique + “security paradox” → shift “freedom from fear” → “freedom from want” → global examples (COVID/health, Syria/societal, Rohingya/political, climate/environmental)
realist caution: over-stretched concept risks meaninglessness; state resources finite; raises false expectations
Route 1 balance: human security complements, not replaces, economic security
Route 2 economic security safeguards the aggregate, human security safeguards the person → both needed together
Model answer
Handwritten, in the form it would be written in the examination hall.
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How this is taught
The same flow snapshot, built for every head of the syllabus, with the answer written in class.
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