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NATIONAL AND HUMAN SECURITY CONCEPT

Mitko Kotovchevski, Blagica Kotovchevska

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The security of people is the most important political care, that is, in the new era, the focus towards the discipline of security of people has been changed to a great extent instead of a focus towards the country: it is the human security (individual security). The human security concept, unlike the traditional national security concept, emphasizes the security of the individuals as primary, rather than the security of the country as an entity. The new security concept started to develop at the end of the eighties of the last century, a period when modern societies and the world as a whole increasingly started to face the variably security paradigm and the radically changed (diversified) security environment. The alarming ambiguity of security as a concept results with the irreconcilability of the two viewpoints on national and human (individual) security. Probably it is impossible to reconcile the two viewpoints, as well as the two concepts that seek for fulfillment of the usual strive and expectation to realize security as a value. These arguments unequivocally confirm the conclusion that there is no and that there can’t be necessary harmony between the national and the human security.

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The security of people is the most important political care, that is, in the new era, the focus towards the discipline of security of people has been changed to a great extent instead of a focus towards the country: it is the human security (individual security). The human security concept, unlike the traditional national security concept, emphasizes the security of the individuals as primary, rather than the security of the country as an entity. The new security concept started to develop at the end of the eighties of the last century, a period when modern societies and the world as a whole increasingly started to face the variably security paradigm and the radically changed (diversified) security environment. The alarming ambiguity of security as a concept results with the irreconcilability of the two viewpoints on national and human (individual) security. Probably it is impossible to reconcile the two viewpoints, as well as the two concepts that seek for fulfillment of the usual strive and expectation to realize security as a value. These arguments unequivocally confirm the conclusion that there is no and that there can’t be necessary harmony between the national and the human security.

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The security of people is the most important political care, that is, in the new era, the focus towards the discipline of security of people has been changed to a great extent instead of a focus towards the country: it is the human security (individual security). The human security concept, unlike the traditional national security concept, emphasizes the security of the individuals as primary, rather than the security of the country as an entity. The new security concept started to develop at the end of the eighties of the last century, a period when modern societies and the world as a whole increasingly started to face the variably security paradigm and the radically changed (diversified) security environment. The alarming ambiguity of security as a concept results with the irreconcilability of the two viewpoints on national and human (individual) security. Probably it is impossible to reconcile the two viewpoints, as well as the two concepts that seek for fulfillment of the usual strive and expectation to realize security as a value. These arguments unequivocally confirm the conclusion that there is no and that there can’t be necessary harmony between the national and the human security.

Key concepts: Critical security studies, Security through obscurity, Security studies, Human security, Security engineering, National security, Security convergence, Corporate security

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