Broad Approach to Human Security in the Visegrad Group Countries
Broad Approach to Human Security in the Visegrad Group Countries

Summary/Abstract: The demise of the Cold War and the fading risk of a global military conflict caused researchers to extend the notion of security to subjects other than the states. One of the alternative concepts that emerged in the 1990s was Human Security, which put individual human beings at the heart of analysis. In its narrow approach, called the “Canadian school”, human security seeks to provide all people with the basic political rights and ensure “Freedom from Fear”. The broad approach, advocated by the “Japanese school”, encompasses social and economic rights, as well as the need to offer people the ability to survive and develop. Thus, it has been labelled as the “Freedom from Want” concept. The broad approach to individual human security is closely linked to the concept of sustainable development. This paper looks at the approach taken by the Visegrad Group countries – Poland, Czechia, Slovakia, and Hungary – to the broad concept of Human Security. It presents the analysis of the main strategic documents that deal with social and economic rights of people, the internal security system, and the implementation of the concept of sustainable development.

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