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Human Security in Afghanistan (Hardcover)
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Human Security in Afghanistan (Hardcover)
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Loot Price R390
Discovery Miles 3 900
You Save R1,072 (73%)
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Human Security is an emerging paradigm for understanding global
vulnerabilities. While challenging the traditional notion of
national security it argues that the proper referent for security
should be the individual rather than the state. Defined as the
protection of the vital core of all human lives in ways that
enhance human freedoms and fulfillment, Human Security also means
protecting people from critical and pervasive threats and
situations. It is often ignored that Human Security threats like
poverty, unemployment and disease, which remain an important cause
of insecurity and are connected to bigger problems like terrorism,
insurgency, arms, and drugs trafficking, are therefore crucial for
stability. This connect makes the paradigm of Human Security
relevant in the context of Afghanistan. This book argues that Human
Security provides the conceptual bridge capable of linking military
tactics with the broader strategic objectives pursued by the
international community in Afghanistan. Application of the
principles of human security may be a means by which the
deficiencies of past military practice can be redressed, and this
will likely result in greater success for state-building,
reconstruction, and counterinsurgency aspects of the Afghan
mission. The book argues favourably for developing a Human Security
regime in South Asia where the institutions created on specific
issues could be secular (not based on primordial identities) and
temporary, and thus would never jeopardize the legitimacy of the
state. Further, accountable functioning of the functional
institutions would add strength to the nation-states ability to
deliver and would thus facilitate the integration of various
primordial identities into the national mainstreams of the nation
states they are part of. It is an argument favouring the
reconstruction of an alternative notion of security for Afghanistan
in the South Asian Security Paradigm.
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