A More Secure World

Author : Great Britain. Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Publisher : The Stationery Office
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Law
ISBN : 0101644922

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A More Secure World by Great Britain. Foreign and Commonwealth Office Pdf

Commissioned by the UN Secretary General, the report of the High-level Panel on Threats, Challenges and Changes explores a range of current and evolving threats to international peace and security, and assesses how well existing policies and international institutions have done in addressing these challenges. The report was written by an independent panel of 16 people comprising former heads of state and foreign ministers, as well as security, military, diplomatic and development officials. It makes a number of recommendations to strengthen the international framework of collective security and to promote a more effective UN for the 21st century, based on the recognition that today's security threats, whether they be terrorism, civil wars or extreme poverty, are all interconnected and require comprehensive strategies to address them. This Command Paper sets out the text of the report with the aim of stimulating a public debate in the UK on the issues raised.

Author : United Nations. High-level Panel on Threats, Challenges, and Change,United Nations. Department of Public Information
Publisher : United Nations Publications
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UCR:31210019490539

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A More Secure World by United Nations. High-level Panel on Threats, Challenges, and Change,United Nations. Department of Public Information Pdf

Today, more than ever before, a threat to one is a threat to all. Threats to international peace and security go far beyond aggression by States and include poverty, deadly infectious disease, environmental degradation, civil war, weapons of mass destruction, terrorism and transnational organized crime. This report by 16 of the world's most experienced leaders, commissioned by the United Nations Secretary-General, puts forward a bold new vision of collective security that stresses the need for effective, equitable action in preventing and responding to all major threats to international peace and security.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 6 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Peace
ISBN : OCLC:760057269

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A More Secure World by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anand Panyarachun
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2005-06-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0756747821

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A More Secure World by Anand Panyarachun Pdf

This UN report suggests how nations can work together to meet the threats facing humanity. It is the work of a panel of 16 eminent & experienced people, drawn from different parts of the world, whom UN Sec.-Gen. Kofi Annan asked to assess current threats to international peace & security; to evaluate how well our existing policies & institutions have done in addressing those threats; & to recommend ways of strengthening the UN to provide collective security for the 21st century. This report suggests not only ways to deal with particular threats, but also new ways of understanding the connections between them, & explains what this implies in terms of shared policies & institutions. Also offers a unique opportunity to refashion & renew the UN.

Author : National Intelligence Council
Publisher : Cosimo Reports
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1646794974

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Global Trends 2040 by National Intelligence Council Pdf

"The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic marks the most significant, singular global disruption since World War II, with health, economic, political, and security implications that will ripple for years to come." -Global Trends 2040 (2021) Global Trends 2040-A More Contested World (2021), released by the US National Intelligence Council, is the latest report in its series of reports starting in 1997 about megatrends and the world's future. This report, strongly influenced by the COVID-19 pandemic, paints a bleak picture of the future and describes a contested, fragmented and turbulent world. It specifically discusses the four main trends that will shape tomorrow's world: - Demographics-by 2040, 1.4 billion people will be added mostly in Africa and South Asia. - Economics-increased government debt and concentrated economic power will escalate problems for the poor and middleclass. - Climate-a hotter world will increase water, food, and health insecurity. - Technology-the emergence of new technologies could both solve and cause problems for human life. Students of trends, policymakers, entrepreneurs, academics, journalists and anyone eager for a glimpse into the next decades, will find this report, with colored graphs, essential reading.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Civil defense
ISBN : 2550477626

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Playing a Role in Building a More Secure World by Anonim Pdf

National security is not the exclusive purview of any one level of government but is comprised of aggregates of both provincial and federal powers. Accordingly, the responsibilities that Québec assumes over its territory with regard to maintaining public health and safety, safeguarding democratic institutions, preventing crime and terrorism, and protecting the living environment of Quebecers, make it a key player in the hierarchy of interventions necessary to maintain national security and build a safer world. It is primarily by protecting its citizens within its territorial boundaries against non-military threats and exercising its responsibilities that Québec will do its part in meeting commonly shared continent-wide and international security objectives. This document outlines the main conclusions drawn from studies conducted in order to better understand the scope of emerging security issues for Québec.--Includes text from document.

Author : Cassandra Steer,Matthew Hersch
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-11
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780197548684

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War and Peace in Outer Space by Cassandra Steer,Matthew Hersch Pdf

"Historically, strategic restraint was the dominant approach among nations active in outer space, all of whom understood that continued access to and use of space required holding back on threats or activities which might jeopardize the status quo of peace in space. However, recently there has been a discernible shift in international rhetoric towards a more offensive approach to defense in space. The U.S. move towards establishing a "Space Force" has been echoed by similar announcements in France and Japan. India launched an anti-satellite weapon test and announced proudly that it thereby joined the elite group of China, Russia and the U.S., who have all demonstrated this capability in the past. And as technologies in space advance, along with our terrestrial dependence on space-based systems for our peaceful civilian lives and for support of terrestrial warfare, the political stability of this vulnerable environment comes under threat. These factors, combined with a lack of transparency about actual capabilities and intentions on the part of all major players in space, creates a cyclical escalation which has led some commentators to describe this as a return to a Cold War-type arms race, and to the foreseeability of a space-based conflict. Due to many unique characteristics of the space domain, an armed conflict in space would be catastrophic for all players, including neutral States, commercial actors, and international civil society. Due to the specificity of the space domain, specialized expertise must be provided to decision-makers, and interdisciplinary opinions must be sought from a multitude of stakeholders. To that end, this volume provides a wide spectrum of perspectives from experts who have engaged together at a conference hosted by the Center for Ethics in the Rule of Law to discuss these issues. Ethical, legal and policy solutions are offered here by those with experience in the space sector, including academia, legal practitioners, military lawyers and operators, diplomats and policy advisors"--

Author : Peter G. Danchin,Horst Fischer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2010-01-28
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780521515436

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United Nations Reform and the New Collective Security by Peter G. Danchin,Horst Fischer Pdf

An examination of the concept of collective security in international law and international relations from normative and institutional perspectives.

Author : International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty,International Development Research Centre (Canada)
Publisher : IDRC
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Law
ISBN : 0889369631

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The Responsibility to Protect by International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty,International Development Research Centre (Canada) Pdf

Responsibility to Protect: Research, bibliography, background. Supplementary volume to the Report of the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty

Author : Nancy G. Leveson
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 555 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2012-01-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780262297301

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Engineering a Safer World by Nancy G. Leveson Pdf

A new approach to safety, based on systems thinking, that is more effective, less costly, and easier to use than current techniques. Engineering has experienced a technological revolution, but the basic engineering techniques applied in safety and reliability engineering, created in a simpler, analog world, have changed very little over the years. In this groundbreaking book, Nancy Leveson proposes a new approach to safety—more suited to today's complex, sociotechnical, software-intensive world—based on modern systems thinking and systems theory. Revisiting and updating ideas pioneered by 1950s aerospace engineers in their System Safety concept, and testing her new model extensively on real-world examples, Leveson has created a new approach to safety that is more effective, less expensive, and easier to use than current techniques. Arguing that traditional models of causality are inadequate, Leveson presents a new, extended model of causation (Systems-Theoretic Accident Model and Processes, or STAMP), then shows how the new model can be used to create techniques for system safety engineering, including accident analysis, hazard analysis, system design, safety in operations, and management of safety-critical systems. She applies the new techniques to real-world events including the friendly-fire loss of a U.S. Blackhawk helicopter in the first Gulf War; the Vioxx recall; the U.S. Navy SUBSAFE program; and the bacterial contamination of a public water supply in a Canadian town. Leveson's approach is relevant even beyond safety engineering, offering techniques for “reengineering” any large sociotechnical system to improve safety and manage risk.

Author : Alexander K. Lautensach,Sabina W. Lautensach
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01
Category : Climatic changes
ISBN : 3902890002

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Human Security in World Affairs by Alexander K. Lautensach,Sabina W. Lautensach Pdf

This book is intended as an introductory text from senior undergraduate level up, to be used in courses on international studies and relations, political studies, history, human geography, anthropology and human ecology, futures studies, applied social studies, public health, and other fields. It represents in a coherent fashion the new subject of human security and sets it apart from more traditional models of security. Its approach is deliberately multidisciplinary and transcultural. In addition to a thorough overview of the human security concept, the chapters address problems and opportunities in international law, politics, international relations, human ecology, ethics, law enforcement, development aid, human rights, and public health. The reader is also introduced to specific human security regimes that address human rights violations, peace building and conflict resolution, as well as global environmental governance. The book encourages a vision of the future that acknowledges the certainty of change, extrapolates significant current trends, and questions the values, beliefs and ideals that tend to inform dominant notions of development. Because of its transdisciplinary approach, the book will appeal to a very wide range of interests at the post-secondary/tertiary level. It will be of particular interest to college and university undergraduate students as well as graduate students and researchers, and also to educators from various disciplines in the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities.

Author : William K. Jr. Tell,William Tell, Jr.
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2006-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780595384310

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Bridges Burning by William K. Jr. Tell,William Tell, Jr. Pdf

After decades of Politically Correct attitudes, big-government fixes, culture wars and muddled foreign policy, the U.S. finds itself on the brink of what may become an historic decline from preeminence. In addition, recent trends and events such as globalism and the war on terror have created an environment for the U.S. which is increasingly more dangerous. America was founded on the principles of democracy and freedom. In the last half of the 20th century America forgot these important principles and allowed elements potentially dangerous to freedom and democracy to prevail. What can citizens do to change this trend? As the nation's social and political institutions are in peril of failure citizens must rise up and demand change. Several areas are identified for reform including education, the media and the political process. Ready or not, America's challenges of the 21st century must be addressed with an eye to both the future's perils as well as the Founders principles. Further information and topical updates may be accessed at http://bridgesburning.com.

Author : William Durch,Joris Larik,Richard Ponzio
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780192527813

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Just Security in an Undergoverned World by William Durch,Joris Larik,Richard Ponzio Pdf

Just Security in an Undergoverned World examines how humankind can manage global problems to achieve both security and justice in an age of antithesis. Global connectivity is increasing, visibly and invisiblyin trade, finance, culture, and informationhelping to spur economic growth, technological advance, and greater understanding and freedom, but global disconnects are growing as well. Ubiquitous electronics rely on high-value minerals scraped from the earth by miners kept poor by corruption and war. People abandon burning states for the often indifferent welcome of wealthier lands whose people, in turn, draw into themselves. Humanity's very success, underwritten in large part by lighting up gigatons of long-buried carbon for 200 years, now threatens humanity's future. The global governance institutions established after World War II to manage global threats, especially the twin scourges of war and poverty, have expanded in reach and impact, while paradoxically losing the political support of some of their wealthiest and most powerful members. Their problems mimic those of their members in struggling to adapt to new problems and maintain trust in norms and public bodies. This volume argues, however, that a properly mandated, managed, and modernized global architecture offers unparalleled potential to midwife solutions to intractable issuesfrom violent conflict and climate change to poverty and pandemic diseasethat transcend borders and the capacities of individual actors. It offers just security as a new framework for charing innovating solutions and strategies for effective and essential global governance.

Author : Daniel Aguirre
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351888073

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The Human Right to Development in a Globalized World by Daniel Aguirre Pdf

Offering a comprehensive analysis of the human right to development and its realistic application in an era of economic globalization, Daniel Aguirre provides a multidisciplinary overview of economic globalization and examines its challenges to the realization of human development. He takes this further by engaging with these challenges and highlighting the human rights opportunities presented by economic globalization and the international investment system. The volume proposes a triadic system of responsibility for human rights in development, to include mapping the overlapping human rights responsibilities of corporations at the micro-level, of states at the macro-level and of the international community at the meso-level. The scope of the book is broad and the approach to the subject is new. It will generate interest across many disciplines including political science, international law and economics. Activists, academics and development practitioners in many fields should also read this book.

Author : Lawrence O. Gostin
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-28
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780674269606

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Global Health Security by Lawrence O. Gostin Pdf

With lessons learned from COVID-19, a world-leading expert on pandemic preparedness proposes a pragmatic plan urgently needed for the future of global health security. The COVID-19 pandemic revealed how unprepared the world was for such an event, as even the most sophisticated public health systems failed to cope. We must have far more investment and preparation, along with better detection, warning, and coordination within and across national boundaries. In an age of global pandemics, no country can achieve public health on its own. Health security planning is paramount. Lawrence O. Gostin has spent three decades designing resilient health systems and governance that take account of our interconnected world, as a close advisor to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the World Health Organization (WHO), and many public health agencies globally. Global Health Security addresses the borderless dangers societies now face, including infectious diseases and bioterrorism, and examines the political, environmental, and socioeconomic factors exacerbating these threats. Weak governance, ineffective health systems, and lack of preparedness are key sources of risk, and all of them came to the fore during the COVID-19 crisis, even—sometimes especially—in wealthy countries like the United States. But the solution is not just to improve national health policy, which can only react after the threat is realized at home. Gostin further proposes robust international institutions, tools for effective cross-border risk communication and action, and research programs targeting the global dimension of public health. Creating these systems will require not only sustained financial investment but also shared values of cooperation, collective responsibility, and equity. Gostin has witnessed the triumph of these values in national and international forums and has a clear plan to tackle the challenges ahead. Global Health Security therefore offers pragmatic solutions that address the failures of the recent past, while looking toward what we know is coming. Nothing could be more important to the future health of nations.