인간중심 국가안보: 새로운 안보 현실에 대응하는 안보 패러다임

When the Cold War ended, the international community had high hopes for global peace and security. However, such optimism has been shaken by a series of grave crises, including terrorism, ethnic cleansing, epidemics, and nuclear crises. These new threats are mostly human security threats that pose national security risks even to strong states. Thus, the demand for human security by security consumers - i.e., citizens - has skyrocketed, while national security institutions’ supply of human security has not satisfied this demand, largely due to the traditional orientation of national security towards “regime-centric security.” Although the concept of “human security” developed by the United Nations provides a useful starting point, current definitions of human security have serious limitations that have kept human security out of mainstream discussions about strong states'' national security. This separation is both illogical and impractical, because not only has the public demand for human security increased, but the potential role of the public in security processes has also grown. Recognizing these new realities, this paper reconsiders both human security and national security, bringing the “human” back into the study of national security while also incorporating the state as a critical institution for human security. The resultant new framework, “human-centric national security,” has three dimensions: security of humans, for humans, and by humans.