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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... means their using IFIs and bowing to market discipline . If developing countries could create their own wealth , they would then be able to disconnect from the dependency relationship that continues ( from the imperial era ) to bedevil ...
... means of state welfare provision , especially far outside the capital cities . Corruption became a byword of personalized rule , aggravated by the well - documented abuse and squan- dering of billions of dollars of financial aid ...
... means of creating and / or perpetuating inequalities desired by more powerful actors or groups of actors through the creation or preservation of asym- metrical power relations . Cox argues that ' institutions reflect the power relations ...
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Thinking about security and violence | 12 |
maternal mortality | 69 |
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