Rethinking insecurity, war and violence : beyond savage globalization? / edited by Damian Grenfell and Paul James.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Grenfell, Damian.

James, Paul (Paul Warren), 1958-

Series:

Rethinking globalizations ; 15.

Rethinking globalizations ; 15

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Security, International.

Political violence.

Globalization.

Physical Description:

x, 233 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2009.

Summary:

Rethinking Insecurity, War and Violence: Beyond savage globalization? is a collection of essays by scholars intent on rethinking the mainstream security paradigms.

Overall, this collection is intended to provide a broad and systematic analysis of the long-term sources of political, military and cultural insecurity from the local to the global. The book provides a stronger basis for understanding the causes of conflict and violence in the world today, one that adds a different dimension to the dominant focus on finding proximate causes and making quick responses.

Too often the arenas of violence have been represented as if they have been triggered by reassertions of traditional and tribal forms of identity, primordial and irrational assertions of politics. Such ideas about the sources of insecurity have become entrenched in a wide variety of media sources, and have framed both government policies and academic arguments. Rather than treating the sources of global insecurity to a degree that takes the debates simply beyond assumptions that we are witnessing a savage return to a bloody and tribalized world. It will be of particular interest to students and scholars of international relations, security studies, gender studies and globalization studies.

Contents:

Part I Globalizing insecurity 1

1 Debating insecurity in a globalizing world: an introduction / Damian Grenfell, Paul James 3

2 Globalization and the changing face of war / Paul James, Jonathan Friedman 20

3 Globalization and the limits of current security paradigms / Ronaldo Munck 33

4 Global capitalism and the production of insecurity / James Goodman 44

Part II Reconceptualizing security 57

5 New wars and the therapeutic security paradigm / Michael Humphrey 59

6 Beyond the construction of consent in the War on Terror / Kirsty Best 71

7 Environmental security, climate change, and globalizing terrorism / Robyn Eckersley 85

8 Recasting Western knowledges about (postcolonial) security / Phillip Darby 98

Part III Rethinking localized transnational conflicts 111

9 Zones of conflict and the global War on Terror / Martin Griffiths 113

10 Political regimes in Southeast Asia and the War on Terror / Garry Rodan 125

11 Insecurity, risk, identity and violence in Kosovo / John Tulloch 138

12 Beyond Ethnocracy and conflict in Israel/Palestine? / Oren Yiftachel 152

Parr IV Renewal in the aftermath of violence 167

13 Governance: rule and reconstruction after war / Richard Caplan 169

14 Reconciliation: violence and nation formation in Timor-Leste / Damian Grenfell 181

15 Recovery: taming the rwa bhineda after the Bali bombings / Jeff Lewis, Belinda Lewis 194

16 Resilience: wantoks, transnational traders and global politics / John Handmer, Wei Choong 208.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780415432269

041543226X

9780415432276

0415432278

9780203894194

0203894197

OCLC:

191207246