Protecting Human Security in a Post 9/11 World: Critical and Global Insights [Hardcover]

Written by leading authorities from Asia, Africa, Europe, and North and South America, this groundbreaking volume offers the first truly global and critical perspective on human security in the post 9/11 world. The collection offers unique interpretations on mainstream discourses on human security.Foreword; A.G.McGrew Introduction: Protecting Human Security in a Post 9/11 World; G.Shani PART I: CRITICAL INSIGHTS 'Democratic Imperialism', 'Neo-liberal Globalization' and Human In/Security in the Global South; G.Shani The 'Vital Core': From Bare Life to the Biopolitics of Human Security; J.Berman Human Security: Toward Gender Inclusion?; I.Gibson & B.Reardon Downside Risks and Human Security; Y.Mine PART II: GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES Human Security and Japanese Diplomacy: Debates on the Role of Human Security in Japanese Policy; M.Sato Transnational Crime and Human Insecurity in South East Asia; J.Honna Globalization, The 'War on Terror' and Human In/Security in South Asia; G.Shani Human Security in Sub-Saharan Africa: Conflict Resolution and the Role of Civil Society; H.Solomon Human Security and the Limits of International Intervention: A Comparison of Post-Conflict Angola and Mozambique; C.Alden Human Security and Insecurity: A Perspective from the Other America; J.Nef Human Security and Exceptionalism(s): Securitization, Neoliberalism and Islam; M.K.Pasha Conclusion; G.Shani

'In adopting a thoroughly reflexive approach to the human security paradigm this collection delivers a (theoretically and empirically) rich analysis of its explanatory and normative power' - from the preface by Professor Anthony G. McGrew, University of Southampton, UK (p.x)

CHRIS ALDEN is Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UKJACQUELINE BERMAN is Senior Research Analyst for Berkeley Policy Associates (BPA)AN GIBSON is an Associate Professor in the Inter-Faculty Institute for International Studies (IIIS) at Ritsumeiklc‰