This article explores the concept of ‘human security’: the idea that the referent object and beneficiary of security should be individuals. It demonstrates that the concept has had some success as a normative reference point for human-centred policy movements internationally, and it reflects a broader shift towards human agency and human-centred conceptions of security. As a theoretical concept, therefore, the idea contributes to a multi-disciplinary reconceptualization of security that draws upon theoretical debates in political science and criminology. However, attempts to operationalize it have exposed fundamental problems in the new security discourse more broadly, generating critiques in political science and criminology which share common foundations but which are rarely engaged in an integrated manner. This article explores whether critical or radical security ideas like human security can be reconciled with political ‘realities’ or whether this undermines their intellectual integrity. In addressing this debate from an international relations perspective, the article also engages with criminological scholarship on security in order to identify and strengthen links across the disciplines.

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人类安全：调和关键愿望与政治“现实”

本文探讨了“人类安全”的概念：安全的指称对象和受益人应该是个人的想法。它表明该概念作为国际上以人为本的政策运动的规范参考点取得了一些成功，它反映了向人的能动性和以人为中心的安全概念的更广泛转变。因此，作为一个理论概念，该想法有助于利用政治科学和犯罪学的理论辩论对安全进行多学科重新概念化。然而，将其付诸实施的尝试更广泛地暴露了新安全话语中的根本问题，引发了政治科学和犯罪学的批评，这些批评有着共同的基础，但很少以综合方式参与。本文探讨了人类安全等关键或激进的安全理念是否可以与政治“现实”相协调，或者这是否会破坏他们的智力完整性。在从国际关系的角度解决这场辩论时，本文还涉及安全方面的犯罪学研究，以确定和加强跨学科的联系。