Protecting Human Security in a Post 9/11 World: Critical and Global Insights / Edition 1

by Giorgio Shani, Makoto Sato, M. Pasha

Overview

Written by leading authorities from Asia, Africa, Europe, and North and South America, this groundbreaking volume offers the first truly global and critical perspective on human security in the post 9/11 world. The collection offers unique interpretations on mainstream discourses on human security.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780230006454
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	11/09/2007
Edition description:	2007
Pages:	226
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.02(d)

About the Author

CHRIS ALDEN is Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK JACQUELINE BERMAN is Senior Research Analyst for Berkeley Policy Associates (BPA) AN GIBSON is an Associate Professor in the Inter-Faculty Institute for International Studies (IIIS) at Ritsumeikan University, Japan JUN HONNA is Associate Professor in the College of International Relations at Ritsumeikan University, Japan ANTHONY G. MCGREW is Professor and Head of School of the Social Science at Southampton University, UK YOICHI MINE is Director in Charge of Administration, the Japan Association for African Studies, and Professor in the Graduate School of Human Sciences, Osaka University, Japan JORGE NEF is Professor and Director of Latin American, Caribbean and Latino Studies, and Professor of Political Science at the University of South Florida (USF) in Tampa, USA BETTY A. REARDON is Director Emeritus of the Peace Education Program and Center at Teachers College, Columbia University, USA HUSSEIN SOLOMON is Professor in the Department of Political Sciences and is Director of the Centre for International Political Studies at the University of Pretoria, South Africa

Table of Contents

Foreword; A.G.McGrew Introduction: Protecting Human Security in a Post 9/11 World; G.Shani PART I: CRITICAL INSIGHTS 'Democratic Imperialism', 'Neo-liberal Globalization' and Human In/Security in the Global South; G.Shani The 'Vital Core': From Bare Life to the Biopolitics of Human Security; J.Berman Human Security: Toward Gender Inclusion?; I.Gibson & B.Reardon Downside Risks and Human Security; Y.Mine PART II: GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES Human Security and Japanese Diplomacy: Debates on the Role of Human Security in Japanese Policy; M.Sato Transnational Crime and Human Insecurity in South East Asia; J.Honna Globalization, The 'War on Terror' and Human In/Security in South Asia; G.Shani Human Security in Sub-Saharan Africa: Conflict Resolution and the Role of Civil Society; H.Solomon Human Security and the Limits of International Intervention: A Comparison of Post-Conflict Angola and Mozambique; C.Alden Human Security and Insecurity: A Perspective from the Other America; J.Nef Human Security and Exceptionalism(s): Securitization, Neoliberalism and Islam; M.K.Pasha Conclusion; G.Shani

Editorial Reviews

'In adopting a thoroughly reflexive approach to the human security paradigm this collection delivers a (theoretically and empirically) rich analysis of its explanatory and normative power' - from the preface by Professor Anthony G. McGrew, University of Southampton, UK (p.x)

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