ABSTRACT
Arab Human Development Report associates were clear that the concept of security had been too much associated with military conflict and arms and that human security involved such concerns as "job security, income security, health security, environmental security, and security from crime." In fact, the increasingly influential constructivist school of international relations scholars would argue that the type of broader perspective reflected in the human security construct is necessary to appropriately analyze and make sense of the changing international system. Human security has gained increasing acceptance as a concept, and improving human security is a critical goal for many governments' international assistance efforts. The authors consider how best to attain human security for states, groups, and individuals by examining the continuum of interrelated issue areas that they conceptualize in specific chapters as civic security, economic security, environmental security, maritime security, health security, and cyber security. The chapter also presents an overview of the subsequent chapters of the book.
