Human insecurity : global structures of violence / David Roberts.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Roberts, David W. (David Wesley), 1962-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Violence against.

Women.

Children--Violence against.

Children.

Violence.

International relations.

International cooperation.

Physical Description:

208 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Zed Books ; New York : Distributed in the USA by Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.

Summary:

Human Insecurity is concerned with our refusal to confront the millions of avoidable deaths of women and children each year. Those missing millions are rarely the subject of conventional security studies, yet such avoidable deaths are a vital part of the notion of security more broadly understood. The book argues that such deaths are caused by the man-made structures of neoliberalism and 'andrarchy', and that the debate on human security can be reinvigorated by looking at the unarmed, civilian role in causing the deaths of millions of innocent people, from child deaths and preventable disease to honour killings.

David Roberts claims that by facing up to this relationship between social structures and massive avoidable human suffering we can create another system less prone to global violence. This book is a powerful intervention in the debate on human security and an urgent call to accept our responsibilities to the millions killed needlessly each year.

Contents:

Introduction

Thinking about security and violence

Global human insecurity

Institutions, the U5MR, infanticide and maternal mortality

Institutions and intimate murder

Human and realist security

International institutions

Andrarchy and neoliberalism

Global structures

Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [186]-201) and index.

ISBN:

9781842778258

1842778250

9781842778241

1842778242

OCLC:

154789363

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