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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... vulnerable are so because other people with greater power control safer land, and governments and political institutions determine where poor and vulnerable people live by denying access to better land through a range of means and ...
... vulnerable are so because other people with greater power control safer land, and governments and political institutions determine where poor and vulnerable people live by denying access to better land through a range of means and ...
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... vulnerable object less exposed to conditions that threatened its security. The problem had become how to define human security, a challenge discussed in greater detail in Chapter 2 of this work. The debate had become stalled between a ...
... vulnerable object less exposed to conditions that threatened its security. The problem had become how to define human security, a challenge discussed in greater detail in Chapter 2 of this work. The debate had become stalled between a ...
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... vulnerable of our species. The reluctance to consider that vulnerable children are deserving of being 'securitized', and in many cases outright rebuttal, reflects a disinclination to engage with the complex and less obvious explanations ...
... vulnerable of our species. The reluctance to consider that vulnerable children are deserving of being 'securitized', and in many cases outright rebuttal, reflects a disinclination to engage with the complex and less obvious explanations ...
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... vulnerability to non-state forces globally has pushed the security debate outside its traditional ambit and into the global problem of non-military violence against civilians. Where once violence was crudely defined to encompass ...
... vulnerability to non-state forces globally has pushed the security debate outside its traditional ambit and into the global problem of non-military violence against civilians. Where once violence was crudely defined to encompass ...
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... security debate away from a smaller population and high-technology issues to the most vulnerable people whose lives can be radically improved with low-technology interventions determined by political Two 14 Human security.
... security debate away from a smaller population and high-technology issues to the most vulnerable people whose lives can be radically improved with low-technology interventions determined by political Two 14 Human security.
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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