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 6
... reflects a fixed and disruptive human 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 ...
... reflects a fixed and disruptive human 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 ...
Page 8
... with enough critical consciousness to recognize when incontestable evidence is being denied by elite power interests that manipulate public 'fears'. Dom Helda Camara's oft-quoted comment is instructive because it reflects how the One 8.
... with enough critical consciousness to recognize when incontestable evidence is being denied by elite power interests that manipulate public 'fears'. Dom Helda Camara's oft-quoted comment is instructive because it reflects how the One 8.
Page 9
... reflects how the sustained assault on vulnerable children globally is deprioritized by omission; and it implies how his legitimacy was challenged by the appellation 'communist'. Contemporaneously, and in similar fashion to Dom Helda ...
... reflects how the sustained assault on vulnerable children globally is deprioritized by omission; and it implies how his legitimacy was challenged by the appellation 'communist'. Contemporaneously, and in similar fashion to Dom Helda ...
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... reflecting increasing awareness that the state is no longer necessarily the main inflictor of violence towards the human being, the causes of human security problems have also come to be addressed anew. Mass human vulnerability to non ...
... reflecting increasing awareness that the state is no longer necessarily the main inflictor of violence towards the human being, the causes of human security problems have also come to be addressed anew. Mass human vulnerability to non ...
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... Reflecting this concern and intellectual distinction, Booth discusses the dangers of the traditional orthodoxy in terms of what security means. He fears 'the consequences of perpetuating old orthodoxies in a fast-moving political ...
... Reflecting this concern and intellectual distinction, Booth discusses the dangers of the traditional orthodoxy in terms of what security means. He fears 'the consequences of perpetuating old orthodoxies in a fast-moving political ...
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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