ABSTRACT
The concept of human security is argued to be one of the most important and serious challenges to the way in which international security has been both theorised and practised for much of the twentieth century.1 In place of the state-centric security framework, which has both endangered people and ignored the real threats to individuals, the human security framework is argued to have the potential to be an emancipatory and empowering security framework for individuals. In this article I critically engage with these central claims within the human security framework and I will argue that human security cannot live up to its promises.
