The project deals with an exciting agenda in security studies, i.e. the double move of broadening
and deepening an analytical focus of the field. As a result, the human security (HS) paradigm has
emerged and the individual was constituted as a research object. Although this change of the
referent object have led to diversification of security studies, with more pluralist conceptual and
theoretical universes, HS has not been without flaws. The niche for the project rests upon the
current state of the HS resembling a vague welter of theoretical propositions, attempts to
operationalise HS and political solutions. The object of the project is to assess the disciplinary
fortunes and empirical usefulness of the HS paradigm and to critically investigate its relationship to
the paradigm of national security. Outcomes of the project will be a monograph and two articles in
international peer-reviewed journals. The project will include primary data gathering in selected
destinations.

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