THE MAKING OF THE INTERNATIONAL LABOR ORGANIZATION AS A REIFICATION OF THE SOCIAL DIMENSION OF SECURITY
THE MAKING OF THE INTERNATIONAL LABOR ORGANIZATION AS A REIFICATION OF THE SOCIAL DIMENSION OF SECURITY

Summary/Abstract: The current debates focusing on a deeper and wider understanding of thesecurity concept seem to revolve around theoretical and factual developments startingwith 1945 and especially with 1989. The historical approach proposed by this paperattempts to expand the time horizon to an older peace arrangement: the VersaillesTreaty. Taking into account empirical evidence and approaching conceptual debates, itargues that the security’s conceptual rationale – peace and conflict – was long agotreated from a social perspective. The origins of the social dimension of the securityconcept may thus be traced back to the International Labor Organization and theprocess that led to its inclusion in the Versailles Treaty

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