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Human security and the UN : a critical history / S. Neil MacFarlane and Yuen Foong Khong.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
MacFarlane, S. Neil.
Contributor:
Khong, Yuen Foong, 1956-
Series:
United Nations intellectual history project (Series)
United Nations intellectual history project
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Security, International.
Human rights--International cooperation.
Human rights.
National security--International cooperation.
National security.
Internal security--International cooperation.
Internal security.
Economic security--International cooperation.
Economic security.
Security (Psychology)--International cooperation.
Security (Psychology).
United Nations.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (369 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
Other Title:
Human security and the United Nations
Place of Publication:
Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2006.
Language Note:
English
Summary:
How did the individual human being become the focus of the contemporary discourse on security? What was the role of the United Nations in ""securing"" the individual? What are the payoffs and costs of this extension of the concept? Neil MacFarlane and Yuen Foong Khong tackle these questions by analyzing historical and contemporary debates about what is to be secured. From Westphalia through the 19th century, the state's claim to be the object of security was sustainable because it offered its subjects
Contents:
Introduction
The prehistory of human security
The UN and human security during the cold war
The evolving critique of national security
The UN and human security : the development dimension
The UN and human security : the protection dimension
Human security and the protection of vulnerable groups
Human security and the UN : a critique.
Notes:
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-323) and index.
ISBN:
9786612072833
1-282-07283-8
0-253-11199-4
OCLC:
476030856

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