From Cocnept to Contact: Human Security as Forieng Policy.

There appears to be an emerging global consensus in support of a rapid response ?humanitarian intervention? force?seen as necessary and desirable prior to significant humanitarian crises reaching critical mass levels. With the publication of the European Security Strategy in 2003 and with the subsequent 2004 publication of A Human Security Doctrine for Europe: The Barcelona Report of the Study Group on Europe?s Security Capabilities, the EU has declared inherent security values in both promoting the rights of nation-states and in protecting the rights of individual citizens. The EU has also provided a proposed force planning structure to support these values. The authors will consider the positive and negative aspects of what essentially constitutes a humanitarian intervention force, offer a review all of the nascent proposals and their critiques, examine why many proposal to date have not been implemented, and compare what these proposals call for in terms of military and civilian input. Moreover, the authors will explore how the concept of human security may help overcome the conceptual, political and operational challenges facing such a force. The authors will also consider the feasibility of translating human security and force structure strategies for ?middle power? states?such as Canada or Norway?as well as ?major power? states?such as the United States. We will conclude with the policy implications of aggressive state postures (with force capabilities and planning in place) toward human security. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]