Human Security as the Universal Value

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Journal of Human Security. — 2012. — Volume 8, Issue I. — Pp. 68-80.The adoption and use of the term "Human Security" allows for the analysis of conceptual controversies between human security and the more general concepts of state security and national security in political science and the theory of international relations. The acceptance of human security as a universal value allows not only the removal of its controversies with the national, state and collective securities, but it also encourages all domestic and international actors to share a common approach, namely the removal of the threat to human security. The author proposes a change of value orientation to the concept of "Human Security", because human society's conditions of existence in two spheres (natural and technogenous) already changes the approach to this term. The approach thus becomes more universal. Perhaps, we can say, that it is more universal than the term "Freedom". "Freedom" cannot be a priority in the face of threat to "Human Security".