Research Handbook on International Law and Human Security (Research Handbooks in International Law series)

✍ Scribed by Gerd Oberleitner (editor)

• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
• Year: 2022
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 451
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This comprehensive Research Handbook considers the place of human security, both in practice and as a concept within international law, examining the preconditions for and consequences of applying human security to international legal thinking and practice. It also proposes a future international law in which human security is central to the law’s purpose.

Contributions by leading authors in the field critically engage with 25 years of human security practice in different areas of international law and explore the challenges, successes and setbacks of realising human security in a state-based international legal order whilst re-conceptualizing central elements of international law from a human security perspective. Organised around six core themes, the Research Handbook shows how human security can be used as an overarching framework to preserve peace, protect people and counter vulnerability through international law.

Progressive and engaging, this Research Handbook will be a key resource for scholars and students of public international law, security, and international relations, who wish to further their knowledge of human security as the central purpose of international law.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter
Copyright
Contents
About the editor and contributors
Introduction
PART I Understanding human security in international law: concept, practice, actors
1. Human security and international law: why? how?
2. Security: national, international, human
3. Human security and the United Nations
4. Human security and non-state actors
PART II HUMAN SECURITY: PRESERVING PEACE AND PROTECTING PEOPLE
5. The Security Council: collective security and peacekeeping for human security
6. Human security in armed conflict: norms, agendas and actors for protecting civilians
7. Attaining human security by disarming
8. Managing transition and building peace from a human security perspective
PART III PERSONAL SECURITY, HUMAN DIGNITY AND GLOBAL JUSTICE
9. Human rights and human security
10. Transnational organised crime and terrorism as human security threats: international law’s response
11. Freedom from fear and freedom from want: key components of human security for women
12. The impacts of the International Criminal Tribunals on human security and human rights
PART IV HUMAN SECURITY: CONFRONTING RISK, VULNERABILITY AND EXISTENTIAL CRISIS
13. Climate change as a human security crisis?
14. Complementarity between human security and legal frameworks for humanitarian action
15. Human (in)security in transnational migration, refugee situations and internal displacement
PART V SOCIO-ECONOMIC HUMAN SECURITY IN AGENDA 2030
16. Human security, the UN development system and the SDGs
17. Human security: countering structural inequality and fostering resilience under international law
18. Food security and the right to food: pillars of humanity arising from food and agriculture law
19. Global health law: WHO, COVID-19, and human security
PART VI REGIONAL HUMAN SECURITY PERSPECTIVES
20. Human security in Europe: the European Union and beyond
21. Human security: a Latin American perspective
22. The African Union as a human security arrangement
23. The emerging human security norm in East Asia: toward an epistemic community
Index