This work provides an overall statement about the subject of human security in a global economy. It is organized to achieve two main aims: to embed the idea of human security in the framework of the evolving global economy; and to illustrate the challenges and opportunities to human security as we enter the 21st century by empirical studies. The book explores security from a human, rather than a state, perspective. This represents a conscious attempt to relocate the security, to move it from the terrain of an international system composed of discrete territorial units called sovereign states and to embed it in a global social structure composed of humanity in a capitalist world economy. The emphasis is on the fulfilment of human security, rather than the pursuit of the national interest.