We pay special attention to the actor(s) who are in the position of evaluating policies. Human security is, after all, the security that the individuals can entertain through his or her action. Who after all decides what is desirable? What makes one better prepared to decide what is desirable?

Here we'll look at one way in which a particular set of actors (US intelligence agencies) embedded in a specific set of institutional logics (security, government) understand a policy problem (climate change).

This week will focus on the ways in which variations in meaning affect policy analysis and decision-making.

This lecture will introduce the notion of phronesis to analyzing policy problems, an approach that focuses on using case studies to analyze issues of values and power in policy decisions.

We go over the previous lectures. We designate one or two students as the facilitator of the discussion. The participants are urged to finish the relevant readings. No free ride.

a) Development: An examination of the contextual background of “human security” issue. Though historical in nature, the examination should turn up some concepts for both heuristic and analytical purposes. b) Policy Research and Management: We will discuss how a “research” requires a certain degree of neutrality * commitment to context-free explanation * and equally acute sense of its consequences of (or responsibility for) what it produces in the actual context of life.

a) Human Security: Discussion of the beginnings and changing conceptions of human security. This will be followed by the elaboration on what the key conceptual as well as policy issues involved in the “human security” research. b) Umegaki will survey some of the preceding research on “human security.”

Umegaki briefly introduces the current as well as past research projects, and basic policy interest of the two instructors of the course. The introduction will be followed by a brief outline of what this course is meant, supplemented by a simple account of what “policy management” (sougouseisakugaku) is about. We will also give the “must” readings for you to consider throughout the semester.