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The Global Illusion of Citizen Protection - Transnational Threats and Human Security (Paperback)
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The Global Illusion of Citizen Protection - Transnational Threats and Human Security (Paperback)
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This book comprehensively analyzes the global illusion of citizen
protection so common today. This text helps students understand a
central puzzle in human security, which has two distinct
components: (1) although it might be reasonable to assume that
political leaders' threat responses would almost always have a
decent chance of safeguarding the mass public, sometimes they do
not, exhibiting rhetoric-reality gaps and purely symbolic gestures;
and (2) although the wealth of security information available to
the mass public would seem to provide them with the opportunity to
gain almost always an accurate picture of existing dangers and
state threat responses, sometimes citizens' evaluation of their own
safety is grossly distorted, exhibiting an overly extreme sense of
helplessness about ongoing threat and an overly extreme sense of
skepticism about state protection. At first glance, it is difficult
to comprehend fully why states would often select ineffective means
of protecting their citizens (assuming the availability of other
options) when it appears that there are incentives for them to
choose effective ones, particularly within societies with
responsive forms of government; and why citizens would often
mischaracterize their own security predicament when they have a
direct "on-the-ground" view of their plight and seem to have
incentives to view their own safety accurately. In exploring these
puzzles through detailed international case study analysis, this
text investigation consciously deviates from some prevailing
orthodox assumptions. It call into question the desirability of the
political centrality of state authority and of the prevailing
economic and cultural norms in today's world, opening up serious
questions about when and how existing structures and values
contribute to increasing rather than decreasing human insecurity
for the average world citizen.
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