ABSTRACT
The lessons learned from international politics in the post-Cold War era compel people to accept an important fact: it is impossible to protect and enhance human freedom and well-being exclusively through the traditional paradigm of national security. Human security is a concept that has emerged in recent years from the work of critical international political theorists and policymakers, and has far-reaching implications for global activity beyond the realm of the classical conception of national security. The modern theory and practice of international relations has been dominated by political realism, an approach that is committed to a unified view of power and national security as defining of the political world. Given the transformation of the security paradigm it is necessary to identify new concepts that will help to provide content to the human security approach. From the basic rights perspective it is possible to argue for the right to highest attainable standards of peace for all.
