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Human security refers in its broadest sense to the protection of
individuals from harm. Human Security: Theory and Action explores
the theory and application of concepts central to this notion of
security. It examines the conceptual roots of human security,
connecting its origins to its applications and challenges in war
and peacetime. With a unique focus on the evolving notion of
responsibility for security, the text introduces the critical
questions and priorities that underpin policies and actions. The
text is organized around four sections. The introduction offers an
overview of human security and its basic tenets and historical
foundations. The second section focuses on human security in armed
conflict and post-conflict reconstruction, discussing such issues
as the doctrine of Responsibility to Protect, racial inequality,
peacekeeping and peace negotiation processes, and humanitarian
assistance. The third section identifies the long-term issues that
are necessary for a durable human security, including human rights,
food security, poverty, gender equality, health security, and
environmental sustainability. The final section applies the
concepts introduced in the book to twenty-first century concerns
and offers insights on turning theory into action. Integrated into
the text are many case studies to broaden the student's awareness
beyond the conflicts and issues that dominate the media. By
balancing theoretical explanations with concrete illustrative
cases, both historical and contemporary, the text provides
intellectually challenging and intrinsically interesting material
and offers a unique, comprehensive introduction human security in
war and peace. The second edition of Human Security: Theory and
Action examines the conceptual roots of human security, connecting
its origins to its application in a time of conflict, inequality,
environmental stress, and the aftermath of a global pandemic.
Human security refers in its broadest sense to the protection of
individuals from harm. Human Security: Theory and Action explores
the theory and application of concepts central to this notion of
security. It examines the conceptual roots of human security,
connecting its origins to its applications and challenges in war
and peacetime. With a unique focus on the evolving notion of
responsibility for security, the text introduces the critical
questions and priorities that underpin policies and actions. The
text is organized around four sections. The introduction offers an
overview of human security and its basic tenets and historical
foundations. The second section focuses on human security in armed
conflict and post-conflict reconstruction, discussing such issues
as the doctrine of Responsibility to Protect, racial inequality,
peacekeeping and peace negotiation processes, and humanitarian
assistance. The third section identifies the long-term issues that
are necessary for a durable human security, including human rights,
food security, poverty, gender equality, health security, and
environmental sustainability. The final section applies the
concepts introduced in the book to twenty-first century concerns
and offers insights on turning theory into action. Integrated into
the text are many case studies to broaden the student's awareness
beyond the conflicts and issues that dominate the media. By
balancing theoretical explanations with concrete illustrative
cases, both historical and contemporary, the text provides
intellectually challenging and intrinsically interesting material
and offers a unique, comprehensive introduction human security in
war and peace. The second edition of Human Security: Theory and
Action examines the conceptual roots of human security, connecting
its origins to its application in a time of conflict, inequality,
environmental stress, and the aftermath of a global pandemic.
The new world order as it stood after the apparent end of the Cold
War and the collapse of the USSR was greeted with enthusiasm and
optimism almost everywhere, but especially in the West. Less than a
quarter century later that optimism has faded dramatically, with
the rise of populism, nationalism, religious extremism and civil
discord disrupting political and social norms around the world.
This book reveals the extent to which events that began as internal
political crises in Europe, the Middle East and the USA have sent
ripple effects reaching into all points of the globe. The
projection of liberal democratic predominance in the 1990s, has
faded as illiberal governance gains support worldwide.
Long-standing international trade patterns are disrupted, perhaps
permanently, by the weaponization of economic sanctions, real and
perceived threats of terrorism raise levels of anxiety everywhere,
and severe new weather patterns inflict floods, fires, drought and
hurricanes on populations unused to such extremes. This book
describes and analyses many of these phenomena in the hope that
better understanding of them may help ameliorate their
consequences.
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