Human Insecurity in a Global World

by Chen, Lincoln C.; Fukuda-Parr, Sakiko; Seidensticker, Ellen

• ISBN13: 9780674014541
• ISBN10: 0674014545
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-01-01
• Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr

Summary

The decade of the 1990s witnessed enormous changes in the international environment. The Cold War conclusively ended. Biotechnology and communications technology made rapid advances. Barriers to international trade and investment declined. Taken together, these developments created many opportunities for peace and prosperity. At the same time, with the end of superpower domination, ethnically based intranational conflicts brought on widespread suffering. And while globalization expanded opportunity, growth, and incomes, it increased inequality of incomes and decreased human security. Moreover, as countries have become more closely linked, insecurity in one country has affected security in other countries.

Table of Contents

Preface: New Threats to Human Security	vii
Contributors	xiii
New Threats to Human Security in the Era of Globalization	1	(14)
Sakiko Fukuda-Parr
Concepts of Human Security	15	(26)
Sabina Alkire
Human Security and International Collaboration: Lessons from Public Goods Theory	41	(24)
Fen Osler Hampson
Mark W. Zacher
Global Mobility, Inequality, and Security	65	(22)
Robert L. Bach
Trafficking in Persons and Human Security	87	(20)
Michele Anne Clark
From the Environment and Human Security to Sustainable Security and Development	107	(30)
Sanjeev Khagram
William C. Clark
Dana Firas Raad
Human Security of Working Women: Response to Crisis	137	(26)
Tony Vaux
Francie Lund
Human Insecurity of International Financial Volatility	163	(20)
Stephany Griffith-Jones
Jenny Kimmis
Global Health and Human Security	183	(12)
Lincoln C. Chen
Vasant Narasimhan
Infectious Disease Threats to National and Global Security	195	(20)
David L. Heymann
Human Security, Poverty, and Conflict: Reform of International Financial Institutions	215	(28)
Nat J. Colletta
Index	243