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Contributions from
the Column
Media
Africa’s youth: patience
at an end
Doha Round:
striking projection
“Human security” as leitmotiv
for foreign policy
Islamist parties:
greater integration
05/2006 |
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“Human security” as leitmotiv for foreign policy
Tobias Debiel/Sascha Werthes (Eds.):
Human security on foreign policy agendas.
Changes, concepts and cases
(INEF-Report 80/2006).
Duisburg: Institut für Entwicklung und Frieden
(Institute for Development and Peace) 2006,
80 pages, ISSN 0941-4967,
download free from: http://inef.uni-due.de/page/PublSerien.html
The concept of “human security” is increasingly being applied in practical terms. Countries such as Canada and Japan show that it is an appropriate leitmotif to define foreign policy agendas. The authors take the view that the more closely the concept coincides with a country’s traditions, the more likely it is that this will occur. In the case of Japan, for instance, the human-centred approach corresponds with that country’s foreign policy tradition since 1945. The authors recommend that the EU focus on human rights.
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