Protecting human security in a post 9/11 world : critical and global insights / edited by Giorgio Shani, Makoto Sato, Mustapha Kamal Pasha ; foreword by Anthony G. McGrew.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Shani, Giorgio, 1970-

Satō, Makoto, 1948-

Pasha, Mustapha Kamal.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Security, International--21st century.

Security, International.

Physical Description:

xv, 226 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

Summary:

The failure of the US-led coalition to achieve its stated objective of removing the threat of terror illustrates the ineffectiveness of the national security paradigm in addressing the principal sources of insecurity in our globalizing, post 9/11 world. However, the concept of 'human security', which seeks to replace the state with the individual as the primary locus of security, remains vague, conceptually fuzzy and difficult to put into practice. In an effort to address these limitations and to suggest ways in which the concept of human security can be protected in the light of the US-led 'war on terror', this unique volume brings together leading international scholars from Asia, Africa, Europe, and North and South America to critically examine human security in the post 9/11 environment and to suggest a new research agenda in critical human security studies. Challenging and provocative, this book is a timely contribution to understanding the post 9/11 era.

Contents:

Introduction : protecting human security in a post 9/11 world / Giorgio Shani

'Democratic imperialism', 'neo-liberal globalization' and human in/security in the global south / Giorgio Shani

The 'vital core' : from bare life to the biopolitics of human security / Jacqueline Berman

Human security : toward gender inclusion / Ian Gibson and Betty Reardon

Downside risks and human security / Yoichi Mine

Human security and Japanese diplomacy : debates on the role of human security in Japanese policy / Makoto Sato

Transnational crime and human insecurity in Southeast Asia / Jun Honna

Globalization, the war on terror and human in/security in South Asia / Giorgio Shani

Human security in sub-Saharan Africa: conflict resolution and the role of civil society / Hussein Solomon

Human security and the limits of international intervention: a comparison of post-conflict Angola and Mozambique / Chris Alden

Human security and insecurity: a perspective from the other America / Jorge Nef

Human security and exceptionalism(s): securitization, neoliberalism, and Islam / Mustapha Kamal Pasha.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 200-220) and index.

ISBN:

0230006450

9780230006454

OCLC:

124161813

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