Globalization and Human Security - Statehood Transformed

If national security, in the classical (traditional) manner, is consistent with the defense of the state, as reflected in various strategic analyses, human security could be a contemporary challenge to the orthodox realism and so, it would create prerequisites for a more sophisticated understanding of sovereignty. Within the framework of globalization, the idea of Westphalia way of dealing with sovereignty is put into question even if the demilitarization of security doesn't imply the elimination of traditional strategic concerns but only the supplementation of these with some other that no longer can be solved through the exclusive focus on the state level. If the international system, based on the mutual recognition of sovereignty, is the least bad system of organizing international relations, however, failed states put under grave danger human security; this means that it is open the way for humanitarian interventions, which could open the path towards defining a new regime of sovereignty. The study argues that the human security (as responsibility to protect) could be a new way of understanding sovereignty, not excluding the state but linking the concepts that traditionally divide the international community and sovereign state; the new notion of sovereignty becomes a mechanism of surpassing the arbitrary power of state (reflecting the state control and the freedom from any interference) by the accountability of its actions (reflecting a better way to balance order and justice).