THE CHANGING NATURE OF SECURITY: FROM NATIONAL TO GLOBAL AND TO HUMAN SECURITY

GRIZOLD Anton (PhD, Professor, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Political Science, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia), anton.grizold@fdv.uni-lj.si
Bučar Bojko (PhD, Professor, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Political Science, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia), bojko.bucar@fdv.uni-lj.si

The article deals with the possibility of the fundamental shift of traditional state behaviour from national to global security and ultimately to human security. The article departs from the genesis of the security concept, subsequently it deals with some new elements of the content of contemporary security and deliberates on issues of global security. It continues with human security and its origins, especially also with some theoretical and practical dimensions of the concept of human security. At the end the article summarizes the challenges and the dilemmas of contemporary security and brings concluding remarks. The authors believe it is time that the principles on which human security is based becomean integral part of contemporary national as well as world security policies.

Keywords: National security, International security, Human security, Globalisation, Global Civil Society. Security policy