Human Security as a Factor of Sustainable Security in Post-War Armenia

Global Responsibility of Small States

Authors

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.46991/JOPS/2024.3.8.042%20

Keywords:

human capital, human security, sustainable security, sustainable development, civiliarchic stabilitocracy, post-war Armenia, surveillance

Abstract

This article examines the problem of human security as a factor in sustainable security in post-war Armenia. In post-war Armenia, the scope of global responsibility of small states is expanding, and sustainable security and sustainable development are becoming the basis of the discourse on the problems of the future of the South Caucasus and the object of political aspirations to strengthen peace on the part of the UN, the EU, the NATO, the Council of Europe, the OSCE and Western countries. The article comparatively analyzes approaches to the study of human security and sustainable security in post-war Armenia, the position on the relationship between development and security in its modern broad interpretation, characteristic of contemporary political science discussions. Authors pay main attention to the analysis of the role of sustainable security in the evolution of the idea of ​​sustainable development of small states of the South Caucasus to the modern approach of the link between security, resilience and development. Authors identified and substantiated the characteristic features of human security and sustainable security in post-war Armenia, which hinder the improvement of the quality of life and the formation of human capital.

Author Biographies

  • Michele Barbieri, University of Naples “Parthenope”

    PhD in Law and Social-Economic Institutions at University of Naples “Parthenope”. He is an Adjunct Professor of Politics of Privacy and Surveillance and Post-doc Research Fellow at the University of Salerno. He is also a lecturer in the Department of Modern Languages and literatures, history, philosophy and law studies (DISTU) at the University of Tuscia. He is a Member of the Italian Political Science Association (SISP) and a Member of the Observatory on Italian Independent Regulators’ Impact Assessment (Osservatorio AIR).

  • Nane Aleksanyan, University of Tuscia

    Erasmus+ MA student of Human Rights and Security at University of Tuscia, Italy. She is a MA student of Law at Eurasia International University, and she holds a Master’s degree in Public Administration from the Yerevan State University

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2024-11-30

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Barbieri, M., & Aleksanyan, N. (2024). Human Security as a Factor of Sustainable Security in Post-War Armenia: Global Responsibility of Small States. Journal of Political Science: Bulletin of Yerevan University, 3(2(8), 42-64. https://doi.org/10.46991/JOPS/2024.3.8.042

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