CONVENTIONAL AND ALTERNATIVE SECURITY STUDIES: COMPARING THE COLD WAR AND POST-COLD WAR EPOCHS
CONVENTIONAL AND ALTERNATIVE SECURITY STUDIES: COMPARING THE COLD WAR AND POST-COLD WAR EPOCHS

Summary/Abstract: THIS STUDY THEMATICALLY COMPARES THE STATE OF CONVENTIONAL AND HUMAN SECURITY STUDIES BETWEEN THE COLD WAR AND POST-COLD WAR EPOCHS. IT EXAMINES CONCISELY THE REASONS AND FACTORS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE SYSTEMATIC SHIFT FROM CONVENTIONAL SECURITY TO, AND THE RISE OF, HUMAN SECURITY DURING THE COLD AND POST-COLD WAR EPOCHS. RELYING ON HISTORICAL METHODOLOGY AND OLE WAEVER'S SECURITIZATION THESIS, THE STUDY LOCATES THE CAUSALITY BETWEEN THE FACTORS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE PARADIGM SHIFT AND THE PRESENT OVERARCHING PROMINENCE OF HUMAN SECURITY IN; FIRST, THE EVENTUAL END OF THE COLD WAR AND, SECOND, THE RISING COMPELLING HUMAN SECURITY NEEDS AND EMERGENCIES IN THE POST-COLD WAR EPOCH.

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