Human Insecurity: Global Structures of ViolenceBloomsbury Publishing, 2008 M05 15 - 219 pages Human Insecurity is concerned with our refusal to confront the millions of avoidable deaths of women and children each year. Those missing millions are rarely the subject of conventional security studies, yet such avoidable deaths are a vital part of the notion of 'security' more broadly understood. The book argues that such deaths are caused by the man-made structures of neoliberalism and 'andrarchy' and argues that the debate on human security can be reinvigorated by looking at the unarmed, civilian role in causing the deaths of millions of innocent people; from child deaths from preventable disease to honour killings. David Roberts claims that by facing up to this relationship between social structures and massive avoidable human suffering we can create another system less prone to global violence. This book is a powerful intervention in the debate on human security and an urgent call to face up to our responsibilities to the millions killed needlessly each year. |
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Page 8
... creating and defending violent structures and institutions and priorities which directly and indirectly energize direct and indirect terminal human agency. • Argues that these structures, institutions and agency are changeable social ...
... creating and defending violent structures and institutions and priorities which directly and indirectly energize direct and indirect terminal human agency. • Argues that these structures, institutions and agency are changeable social ...
Page 9
... created by human beings. In a sense, challenging the legitimacy of a wide interpretation of human security facilitates the 'forgetting' of what this book takes as its reference points and referent objects: the most vulnerable people in ...
... created by human beings. In a sense, challenging the legitimacy of a wide interpretation of human security facilitates the 'forgetting' of what this book takes as its reference points and referent objects: the most vulnerable people in ...
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... creation of the League of Nations to prevent the 'scourge of war', by the outbreak of the Second World War. Realism and its sub-fields have been mainly concerned with the state and its external relations with other states (Pettman 1996 ...
... creation of the League of Nations to prevent the 'scourge of war', by the outbreak of the Second World War. Realism and its sub-fields have been mainly concerned with the state and its external relations with other states (Pettman 1996 ...
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... creating and perpetuating global structures of violence. For example, when urging a 'broad research programme' on human security, Bajpai suggests that we 'focus on threats that can be traced back to identifiable human agents ... not to ...
... creating and perpetuating global structures of violence. For example, when urging a 'broad research programme' on human security, Bajpai suggests that we 'focus on threats that can be traced back to identifiable human agents ... not to ...
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... created and maintained by human actions and institutions' (2004: 300). Picciotto and Weaving (2006: 73) illustrated the issue of perception when they claimed that social structures and institutions are phenomena 'that are required to ...
... created and maintained by human actions and institutions' (2004: 300). Picciotto and Weaving (2006: 73) illustrated the issue of perception when they claimed that social structures and institutions are phenomena 'that are required to ...
Contents
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FOUR Institutions the U5MR infanticide and maternal mortality | 69 |
FIVE Institutions and intimate murder | 88 |
SIX Human and realist security | 105 |
SEVEN International institutions | 117 |
EIGHT Andrarchy and neoliberalism | 136 |
NINE Global structures | 159 |
TEN Conclusion | 179 |
Bibliography | 186 |
Index | 202 |
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