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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... issues , another movement emerged that marks an important departure from traditional foci . Human security studies define the human being as the new security referent . For example , Thomas asserts that ' people , rather than states ...
... issues and marginalizes others . I then apply the evidence of socially constructed human insecurity ( social constructivism ) to real- ism's claims regarding global structures ( inflexible and permanent ) and international institutions ...
... issues , they have shown a propensity to embark on cooperative action through institutions ( 1984 ; Murphy 2000 : 798 ) . An issue with such gravitas that might be identified as a single issue , but with a multidimensional back- ground ...
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Thinking about security and violence | 12 |
maternal mortality | 69 |
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