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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... natural resources and poverty. Few connections were made initially between human agency and human security outcomes, but an alternative field began to develop and refined an approach that became known as human security studies. The ...
... natural resources and poverty. Few connections were made initially between human agency and human security outcomes, but an alternative field began to develop and refined an approach that became known as human security studies. The ...
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... nature which in turn creates the anarchy of international disorder, severing human acts from consequences, this work is concerned with cause and effect. The second rationale of this work, then, is the identification of mainly benign and ...
... nature which in turn creates the anarchy of international disorder, severing human acts from consequences, this work is concerned with cause and effect. The second rationale of this work, then, is the identification of mainly benign and ...
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... nature remained Hobbesian; weapons of mass destruction (WMD) set the agenda for security studies and brutal, kleptocratic and murderous Third World dictators were cynically manipulated by the Permanent Five members of the United Nations ...
... nature remained Hobbesian; weapons of mass destruction (WMD) set the agenda for security studies and brutal, kleptocratic and murderous Third World dictators were cynically manipulated by the Permanent Five members of the United Nations ...
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... nature. It also suggested that people impoverished as a result of their governments selling their land, for example, were victims of structural, indirect violence with the capacity to lead to impoverishment, illness and death – direct ...
... nature. It also suggested that people impoverished as a result of their governments selling their land, for example, were victims of structural, indirect violence with the capacity to lead to impoverishment, illness and death – direct ...
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... nature and nurture' protagonists. Such structures require identification, along with the human agency involved in their construction and activity. The more that research 'denormalizes' the 'normal' structural precepts, the more the ...
... nature and nurture' protagonists. Such structures require identification, along with the human agency involved in their construction and activity. The more that research 'denormalizes' the 'normal' structural precepts, the more the ...
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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