Abstract
<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>The Oxford Handbook of Human Security is focused on individual human beings’ rights, needs, and security. It offers a framework to address threats internal to states and those challenges that transcend national borders—including climate change, war, digital threats to privacy, infectious disease outbreaks, and pervasive threats to human health from noncommunicable disease—while emphasizing the protection and empowerment of individuals within borders. Organized into eight sections, the handbook addresses key political, economic, and social challenges that undermine human security. Chapters explore shifting dynamics relating to human health and the environment, armed actors, technology, and mis- and disinformation, and how these interplay with governance institutions from global to local levels.</jats:p>