Human Insecurity: Global Structures of ViolenceBloomsbury Academic, 2008 - 208 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. |
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... cold war . It does not claim to be a comprehensive survey of all the literature ; but it does attempt to demonstrate shifts in ideas regarding security referents . It also takes account of some of the earlier literature that pointed ...
... War . Realism and its sub - fields have been mainly concerned with the state and its external relations with other states ( Pettman 1996 : 87 ) . Throughout the cold war , thinking on the state of nature remained Hobbesian ; weapons of ...
... cold war . Indeed , Buzan reminds us that as late as 1988 arguments were still being made to identify security as ' anything that concerns the prevention of superpower nuclear war ' ( Buzan et al . 1998 : 2 ) . Human security The end of the ...
Contents
Thinking about security and violence | 12 |
maternal mortality | 69 |
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