Despite the rhetoric of global village theory of international relations, the United States is operating more and more in concert with a self-help model of national security. Against this backdrop, the doctrine of human security seems a not so carefully disguised United Nation's ponzi scheme to transfer funds and resources from the developed to the developing world, enlarging the coffers of NGO's along the way. It is far from clear how human security could ever promote the internal unity of a donor nation or enlarge in a substantive way, the say it has in the direction and shape of the global commons. It is even less clear how human security could encourage prosperity and employment, a key objective of the Canadian government's foreign policy. The term human security is a misnomer.
Human security is, for all intents and purposes, a theory of development.
It is not a viable theory of security. Yet despite all these warning flags, Canadian policy makers seem on the verge of embracing human security as a full blown theory of international stability. Regrettably, human security will not afford Canada the opportunity to recapture the status it enjoyed as a peacekeeper within the Cold War's minimized security architecture.