Political security is one of five sectors of analysis under the framework of the
Copenhagen School of
security studies
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Security studies, also known as international security studies, is an academic sub-field within the wider discipline of international relations that studies organized violence, military conflict, national security, and international ...
.
Within policy circles political security is part of a human security agenda. The 1994
Human Development Report (HDR) set out the definition and parameters of political security. Produced by
Mahbub ul Haq
Mahbub ul Haq ( ur, ; ) was a Pakistani economist, international development theorist, and politician who served as the Minister of Finance of Pakistan from 10 April 1985 to 28 January 1986, and again from June to December 1988 as a careta ...
, a
Pakistan
Pakistan ( ur, ), officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan ( ur, , label=none), is a country in South Asia. It is the world's fifth-most populous country, with a population of almost 243 million people, and has the world's second-lar ...
i, in fewer than 400 words. It was defined as the prevention of government repression, systematic violation of
human rights
Human rights are moral principles or normsJames Nickel, with assistance from Thomas Pogge, M.B.E. Smith, and Leif Wenar, 13 December 2013, Stanford Encyclopedia of PhilosophyHuman Rights Retrieved 14 August 2014 for certain standards of hu ...
and threats from
militarization
Militarization, or militarisation, is the process by which a society organizes itself for military conflict and violence. It is related to militarism, which is an ideology that reflects the level of militarization of a state. The process of milit ...
. This established an agenda that would protect people against states that continued to practice
political repression, 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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