Horizontal and Vertical Extension of International Security: A Human Security Approach

Werthes, Sascha; Debiel, Tobias

doi:10.1007/978-3-540-68488-6_77

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“…More crucially, the data from the index are not readily available and work on this project appears to have stopped after 2013. Werthes et al (2011) take a similar approach, operationalizing six dimensions to build a Human (In)security Index which hews more closely to the original conceptualization. Their analysis also suggests thresholds for different levels of insecurity, which is a useful extension on previous work.…”

Section: Measuring Human Securitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Previous literature has focused on the concept-building stage, often producing too ambitious concepts that made it difficult to find appropriate indicators and that faced the challenge of missing data (Acharya, 2003; Browne and Weiss, 2012; Tadjbakhsh, 2007). While some scholars have previously attempted to construct human security indices (Hastings, 2010; King and Murray, 2001; Werthes et al, 2011), none of these attempts resulted in widely used measures. In most cases, the geographical coverage of these measures has been limited at the same time as their focus has been overly broad, rendering them less useful for analytical purposes.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Revisiting the security–development nexus: Human security and the effects of IMF adjustment programmes

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Shaw

Bujnoch

2022

Conflict Management and Peace Science

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The concept of ‘human security’ holds promise of capturing the strong connections between economic development and personal security that has ushered in the debate about the ‘security−development nexus’ in policy circles. Human security is understood as the ability of states to protect the security of their citizens and to cater to their basic socioeconomic needs. However, the literature on human security is fragmented, leaving applied researchers without a workable definition and a convincing measurement strategy. Part of this problem is due to the fuzziness of the concept and the ambition to associate an ever-increasing set of dimensions with the concept, which renders empirical analysis moot. Following a review of the related literature, we collect measures aligning with ‘freedom from fear’ and ‘freedom from want’, representing the varied discourse on the human security concept. Employing confirmatory factor analysis on 11 indicators, we demonstrate the existence of a single latent factor and extract their common variation to generate a new Human Security Index. We validate the index by comparison against known proxies and related measures. We then present a first empirical application examining the human security implications of IMF programmes, finding that IMF programmes undermine human security, accounting for non-random selection into IMF programmes.

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Section: Measuring Human Securitymentioning

confidence: 99%