One overshadowing, yet positive evolution of security studies from the 1990’s is what Costas Douzinas labels the “new moral order”, in which human rights are prioritised a t the expense of the sovereignty of a state. 275 This led to the introduction of the ‘human security’ approach. Suggestions of an alternative approach were present even from 1968 following Robert Kennedy’s proposal; “there is another kind of violence in its way as destructive as the bullet or the bomb. This is the violence of institutions; indifference, inaction and slow decay. This is the violence that afflicts the poor… this is the slow destruction of a child by hunger, and schools without books and homes without heat in the winter.” 276 This was projected by the UN’s “paradigm shift” following the 1994 UN Human Development Report outlining the security threats of the new era, with greater focus on the moral obligations of the international community to the security of the individual. 277 This “revolution of moral concern” 278 modifies the referent object of security accordingly to reflect the threats faced in the post-Cold War era. Consequently, intervention in Bosnia was regarded as fundamental in order to prevent mass ethnic cleansing, as seen in Rwanda as a consequence of non-intervention. Despite strongly opposing the practise of humanitarian military interventions for various explanations, Richard Falk argues that the alteration from “geopolitical interventionism in the direction of support for
275 Costas Douzinas, ‘Humanity, Military Humanism and New Moral Order’, Economy and Society , 30.2, (2003) 276 Michael Sheehan, International Security – An Analytical Survey , (Lynne Rienner Pub, March 15, 2005) pp. 77. 277 Brauch, pp. 101. 278 Michael Ignatieff, The lesser evil; Political ethics in an age of terror, (Princeton University Press, 2004)
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