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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... debate . This is sometimes ignored or forgotten , but it remains important all the same . The dominant security tradition is that of realism , which for the most part remains focused on the state and various measures of power . These ...
... debate , suggests that ' freedom from want ' should be dropped so we ' keep human security focussed on " freedom from fear " - from the threat or use of violence ' ( 2004 : 367 ) . This seems a more practical agenda but it does not ...
... debate marginal , when the scale of death is staggering ? A conspiracy theorist might propose that this is because , were the bull grabbed by the horns , some of the fundamental assumptions upon which realism rests would be pilloried ...
Contents
Thinking about security and violence | 12 |
maternal mortality | 69 |
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