Human security: securing economics, politics and governance in a globalized world

One of the more fascinating themes of the present debate about the role of the State in international relations is represented by the concept of human security. This concept was first introduced in the Human Development Report published in 1994 by the UNDP as one of the five pillars of a new “people-centred world order”. Being applied at the global scale, it has developed within the new policy framework of human security governance. In my contribution I will present the salient traits of theories of human security and security governance that operate on the foundation of proposals for global security in the official documents by UN, UNDP, OSCE in order to interprete human security as a part of a wider neo-liberal governmentality, putting both individuals and collectivities “at work” in a search for an economic self-governance.