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"Human Security" published on by Oxford University Press.

Considers the plight of refugees to argue that security involves membership in a political community in which all members respect one another & have some say in shaping their lives. The viable state can be both a guarantor of security & a threat to human security. An exploration of the relationship between security & community examines the degree to which the concept of emancipation hinders or advances the development of a critical security agenda & how improved forms of political community can correct the moral deficits of modern sovereign states. It is contended that "the prospects for reforming world politics & its constituent sovereign parts are much greater than realists allow." Communicative action/ethics will not totally eliminate strategic action; it will simply be relegated to a lesser role in world politics. The Kantian notion of a "cosmopolitan condition of general political security" is drawn upon to conclude that security requires the establishment of political structures that guarantee participation in dialogic arrangements & the willingness to spread those arrangements across domestic & international politics. J. Lindroth