The Concept of Security and the Developing World

Nowadays, the concept of „security‟ generating much debate is „Human Security‟. Throughout the Cold War period, the essence of the concept of „security‟ is „National Security‟: protection of the sovereignty and territorial integrity of states from military threats. In this case, states are the key guarantors in providing „security‟. Due to the challenges to that concept, after the Cold War, „security‟ has been extended beyond state-centric notion of security to individuals-focus one. This is new, broadening and deepening concept of „security‟, known as „Human Security‟. However, states remain the objects of „security‟ or the entities to be protected. Under this concept, „Responsibility to Protect (R2P)‟ becomes salient to intervene in other states‟ domestic affairs in compliance with two criteria. In fact, most of the world countries respectively, whether equally or unequally, suffer from non-military security threats such as poverty, diseases, environmental stress, human rights abuses, etc. In this context, this paper will explore why many security issues impact strongly on the developing world