Food Security and International Security: Tracing the Links

• Authors: Katarzyna Marzęda-Młynarska

Title variants

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Bezpieczeństwo żywnościowe i bezpieczeństwo międzynarodowe – identyfikacja powiązań

Abstracts

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Celem artykułu jest analiza bezpieczeństwa żywnościowego z perspektywy studiów bezpieczeństwa międzynarodowego. Agresja Rosji na Ukrainę w lutym 2022 roku spowodowała ponowne zainteresowanie bezpieczeństwem żywnościowym. Niezaprzeczalne związki między zjawiskami wojny i głodu nabrały w tym konflikcie dodatkowego wymiaru ze względu na znaczenie obu stron konfliktu dla globalnego rynku żywności. O ile sposób konceptualizacji bezpieczeństwa żywnościowego wskazuje na jego pośredni związek z bezpieczeństwem międzynarodowym, o tyle zmiana, która dokonała się w badaniach bezpieczeństwa międzynarodowego po zimnej wojnie, spowodowała, że problemy społeczno-ekonomiczne, takie jak głód, zaczęto postrzegać jako zagrożenia dla bezpieczeństwa narodowego państw. Przeprowadzona analiza pozwoliła na sformułowanie następujących wniosków: po pierwsze, bezpieczeństwo żywnościowe powinno być traktowane jako nowy obszar badawczy bezpieczeństwa międzynarodowego, ponieważ stanowi wyzwanie dla stabilności globalnego systemu społeczno-gospodarczego; po drugie, brak bezpieczeństwa żywnościowego generuje poważne zagrożenia dla bezpieczeństwa międzynarodowego, co pokazały kryzysy żywnościowe z lat 2008 i 2010–2011, pandemia COVID-19, a także agresja Rosji na Ukrainę w 2022 roku.

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The article aims to analyze food security from the perspective of international security studies. Russia’s aggression against Ukraine in February 2022 has generated renewed interest in food security. The undeniable links between war and famine have taken on an added dimension in this conflict due to the importance of both warring parties to the global food market. While the way food security is conceptualized points to its indirect relationship with international security, the change that took place in the study of international security after the Cold War recognized socio-economic problems as equivalent of threats to the national security. The analysis allowed the following conclusions. First, food security should be treated as a new research area of international security because it challenges the stability of the global socio-economic system. Second, as the 2008 and 2010–2011 food crises, the COVID-19 pandemic and Russia’s aggression against Ukraine have shown, food insecurity generates threats to international security.

Keywords

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food security; international security; food crisis; wars over resources; weaponization of food

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bezpieczeństwo żywnościowe; bezpieczeństwo międzynarodowe; kryzys żywnościowy; wojny o zasoby; „weaponizacja” żywności

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek
• Journal: Athenaeum. Polskie Studia Politologiczne
• Year: 2023
• Volume: 79
• Pages: 70-89

Dates

published

2023

Contributors

author

Katarzyna Marzęda-Młynarska

• Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin

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Identifiers

DOI

10.15804/athena.2023.79.04

Biblioteka Nauki

22427612