Human Security: Concepts and implications

by Tadjbakhsh; Shahrbanou

• ISBN13: 9780415407274
• ISBN10: 0415407273
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-01-05
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This book, now available in paperback, traces the key evolutions in the development of the concept of human security, the various definitions and critiques, how it relates to other concepts, and what it implies for polities, politics, and policy. Human security is an important subject for the whole world, in particular Asia, as it deals with interactions among fields of social change, such as development, conflict resolution, human rights, and humanitarian assistance. In a globalizing world, in which threats become trans-national and states lose power, security can no longer be studied in a one-dimensional fashion. Written by authors who are experts in this field and with case studies from different regions (Afghanistan, Central Asia and South Asia) presented throughout, this book - now available in paperback - contributes to this new multidimensional conception of security, analyzes its strengths and weaknesses, and focuses on its implications for analysis and action.

Table of Contents

List of figures	p. xi
List of tables and boxes	p. xii
Acknowledgements	p. xiii
List of abbreviations	p. xv
Introduction	p. 1
Concepts: it works in ethics, does it work in theory?	p. 7
Rationale and political usage	p. 9
Definitions, critiques and counter-critiques	p. 39
A paradigm shift in security studies?	p. 72
Human security and human development: shadow or threshold?	p. 98
Debating dignity: human security and human rights	p. 123
Implications	p. 141
Underdevelopment and conflict: a vicious cycle?	p. 143
The state and its domestic responsibilities	p. 166
Intervention, engagement and the responsibilities of the international community	p. 185
Externalities of human security: the role of international aid	p. 208
Concluding thoughts: whither human security?	p. 235
Bibliography	p. 244
Index	p. 263
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