National, European and Human Security: From Co-Existence to Convergence

by Kaldor; Mary

• ISBN13: 9780415680790
• ISBN10: 0415680794
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-07-19
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Employing a discourse-based methodology, this book examines European national security strategies to see how the strategy in question relates to an emerging common European or global vision of security, on the one hand, and, on the other, to human security ideas.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	p. vii
Notes on contributors	p. viii
Acknowledgements	p. xi
List of abbreviations	p. xii
Introduction	p. 1
French security policy: A human security perspective	p. 18
Past present: The development of German security strategy after the Cold War	p. 41
A 'force for good'? British national security and human security in an age of counterterrorism	p. 64
Not there yet: Spain's security strategy from a human security perspective	p. 89
Swedish security strategy in the twenty-first century: What role for human security?	p. 110
The hidden human security dimension of the Czech security policy	p. 130
Human security as a 'floating signifier': Russia's reinterpretation of the concept	p. 152
Index	p. 167
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