Political security is one of five sectors of analysis under the framework of the
Copenhagen School of
security studies.
Within policy circles political security is part of a human security agenda. The 1994
Human Development Report
The Human Development Report (HDR) is an annual Human Development Index report published by the Human Development Report Office of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
The first HDR was launched in 1990 by the Pakistani economist ...
(HDR) set out the definition and parameters of political security. Produced by
Mahbub ul Haq, a
Pakistani, in fewer than 400 words. It was defined as the prevention of government repression, systematic violation of
human rights and threats from
militarization. This established an agenda that would protect people against states that continued to practice
political repression
Political repression is the act of a state entity controlling a citizenry by force for political reasons, particularly for the purpose of restricting or preventing the citizenry's ability to take part in the political life of a society, thereb ...
, systematic torture, ill treatment and disappearance
[Hassan, O. (2015) “Political security: from the 1990s to the Arab Spring“, Contemporary Politics,21:1, pp.86-99 see https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13569775.2014.993907]
References
Copenhagen School (security studies)
Security studies
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