Global Governance, Development And Human Security The Challenge of Poverty and Inequality

by Thomas, Caroline

• ISBN13: 9780745314211
• ISBN10: 074531421X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-09-20
• Publisher: Pluto Press

Summary

In this innovative new book, Caroline Thomas argues that the global development and security agendas are merging. No longer is the language of security confined within the straitjacket of the state and associated national security concerns. The spotlight is shifting to the legitimate security concerns of human beings. The book examines how development is promoted by global governance institutions and how this has impacted on human security in the 1990s. Thomas focuses on the effects of trade, finance, and investment liberalisation on deepening inequality. She explores different approaches for addressing the deepening inequality which threatens the economy at all levels, from the household, to the community, to the global. The book investigates reformist and transformist visions of the future and the contrasting policies tabled for their achievements. Thomas argues that ultimately human security requires a different developmental strategy.

Author Biography

Caroline Thomas is Professor of Global Politics at the University of Southampton . Her publications include Trade and New Social Issues, edited with Annie Taylor (Routledge, 1998); Globalization and the South, edited with Peter Wilkin (Macmillan, 1997) and The Environment in International Relations, (RIIA, 1992).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	vii
Preface: Human Security in a Global Economy	xi
List of Boxes and Tables	xiii
List of Acronyms and Abbreviations	xiv
Part One: The Human Security Challenge
Setting the Scene	3	(20)
Mapping Inequality	23	(11)
Ideas About Development	34	(21)
Part Two: Global Development Practice in the 1980s and 1990s
The Reform of National Economies	55	(14)
Liberalisation of Trade, Finance and Investment	69	(24)
Part Three: Development Pathways for Human Security in the Twenty-first Century
The Reformist Pathway for the Twenty-first Century	93	(17)
Towards an Alternative Pathway for the Twenty-first Century	110	(18)
References and Bibliography	128	(15)
Index	143