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Rethinking the “State Security-Human Security” Nexus in the Face of COVID-19

Rethinking the “State Security-Human Security” Nexus in the Face of COVID-19

Sirin Duygulu
Copyright: © 2022 |Pages: 15
ISBN13: 9781799886747|ISBN10: 1799886743|EISBN13: 9781799886761
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-8674-7.ch006
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Duygulu, Sirin. "Rethinking the “State Security-Human Security” Nexus in the Face of COVID-19." Handbook of Research on Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Threats and Impacts of Pandemics, edited by Şahver Omeraki Çekirdekci, et al., IGI Global, 2022, pp. 109-123. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-8674-7.ch006

APA

Duygulu, S. (2022). Rethinking the “State Security-Human Security” Nexus in the Face of COVID-19. In Ş. Omeraki Çekirdekci, Ö. İngün Karkış, & S. Gönültaş (Eds.), Handbook of Research on Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Threats and Impacts of Pandemics (pp. 109-123). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-8674-7.ch006

Chicago

Duygulu, Sirin. "Rethinking the “State Security-Human Security” Nexus in the Face of COVID-19." In Handbook of Research on Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Threats and Impacts of Pandemics, edited by Şahver Omeraki Çekirdekci, Özlem İngün Karkış, and Suna Gönültaş, 109-123. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2022. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-8674-7.ch006

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Abstract

It is the argument of this chapter that the COVID-19 pandemic created a need to problematize how we understand security, especially the contrast between state security and human security. This chapter argues that the pandemic has illustrated the importance of human security as well as the need to understand it as a precondition for, and not as an alternative to, state and international security. However, the study does not argue that the increased importance of human security translates into the protection of all humans. The crude reality that security is always at someone's and something's expense sustains vulnerabilities within societies. The study acknowledges that the changes in the security implications (both material and perceived) do not necessarily or automatically translate to changes in policies. Institutional resistance to change and general political trends among other factors affect the extent to which policies will evolve in a direction that would better meet the security implications of the pandemic.

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