Globalization Human Security And The African Experience

Author : Caroline Thomas,Peter Wilkin
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Publishers
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1555876994

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Globalization, Human Security, and the African Experience by Caroline Thomas,Peter Wilkin Pdf

Eleven contributions explore security from a human rather than a state perspective and illustrate this by drawing on case material from sub-Saharan Africa. They offer an alternative to the realist, state centered, militaristic, male-dominated terrain of orthodox security and strategic studies, and study such issues as feminist perspectives, justice, economic genocide in Rwanda, security in the new world order, and the erosion of the state and the decline of race. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Paul Battersby,Joseph M. Siracusa
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : STANFORD:36105132186060

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Globalization and Human Security by Paul Battersby,Joseph M. Siracusa Pdf

This concise text presents a focused, well-rounded, and clear-eyed introduction to the concept of human security. Questioning the utility of traditional national-security frameworks in the post-Cold War era, Paul Battersby and Joseph M. Siracusa argue that we must urgently reconsider the principle of state sovereignty in a global world where threats to humanity are beyond the capacity of any one nation to address through unilateral action. The authors highlight circumstances, actors, and influences beyond the traditional focus on state security, especially the role of international organizations and nongovernmental organizations. They also emphasize the importance of human rights, arguing for the development of an effective intervention capacity to protect individuals from state action as well as other security threats arising from conflict, poverty, disease, and environmental degradation. A welcome alternative to state-centric approaches to security, this balanced book will be a valuable supplement for courses in international and national security.

Author : Peter H. Liotta,David A. Mouat,W.G. Kepner,Judith Lancaster
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 483 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2008-07-31
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781402085512

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Environmental Change and Human Security: Recognizing and Acting on Hazard Impacts by Peter H. Liotta,David A. Mouat,W.G. Kepner,Judith Lancaster Pdf

Environmental and Human Security: Then and Now 1 2 ALAN D. HECHT AND P. H. LIOTTA * 1 U. S. Environmental Protection Agency Office of Research and Development 2 Pell Center for International Relations and Public Policy Salve Regina University 1. Nontraditional Threats to Security The events of September 11, 2001 have sharpened the debate over the meaning of being secure. Before 9/11 there were warnings in all parts of the world that social and environmental changes were occurring. While there was prosperity in North America and Western Europe, there was also increasing recognition that local and global effects of ecosystem degradation posed a serious threat. Trekking from Cairo to Cape Town thirty years after living in Africa as a young teacher, for example, travel writer Paul Theroux concluded that development in sub-Saharan Africa had failed to improve the quality of life for 300 million people: “Africa is materially more decrepit than it was when I first knew it—hungrier, poorer, less educated, more pessimistic, more corrupt, and you can’t tell the politicians from the witch-doctors” (2002). While scholars and historians will debate the causes of 9/11 for some time, one message is clear: An often dizzying array of nontraditional threats and complex vulnerabilities define security today. We must understand them, and deal with them, or suffer the consequences. Environmental security has always required att- tion to nontraditional threats linked closely with social and economic well-being.

Author : Mustapha Kamal Pasha
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134591732

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Globalization, Difference, and Human Security by Mustapha Kamal Pasha Pdf

Globalization, Difference, and Human Security seeks to advance critical human security studies by re-framing the concept of human security in terms of the thematic of difference. Drawing together a wide range of contributors, the volume is framed, among others, around the following key questions: What are the silences and erasures of advancing a critical human security alternative without making recognition of difference its central plank?How do we rethink the complex interplay of human security and difference in distinct and varied spatial and cultural settings produced by global forces? What is the nexus between human security and the broader field of global development? What new challenges to Human Security and International Relations are produced with the rise of the ‘post-liberal’ or ‘post-secular’ subject? In what ways releasing human security from identification with the territorial state helps reconceptualize culture? How does Human Security serve as a subspecies of modern humanitarian thought or the latter reinforce imperial imaginaries and the structures of order and morality? Is the pursuit of indigenous rights fundamentally counterpoised to the pursuit of human security? What difference it might make to take the ‘doings and beings’ of communities-of-subsistence rather than basic-needs/wealth-seeking individuals as a point of departure in critical human security studies? How does reconstruction bind post-war and post-disaster states and societies into the global capitalist-democratic political structure?

Author : Kelechi Johnmary Ani,Victor Ojakorotu,Kelvin Bribena
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789811620362

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Political Economy of Resource, Human Security and Environmental Conflicts in Africa by Kelechi Johnmary Ani,Victor Ojakorotu,Kelvin Bribena Pdf

This book shows the push and pull effects between resources, human security and conflicts in Africa. It recognizes the need for resources in Africa to be processed into finished goods in order to influence global market and redefine the pattern of trade relations with powerful countries of Asia, America and Europe in shaping the destiny and future of African countries. The achievement of this laudable objective is plagued by the security challenges which are directly or indirectly linked to resource-related conflicts rocking most of the resource endowed countries in the continent, thereby threatening global peace and security. To deal with this menace in the continent, it requires global co-operation and support of foreign governments, international organizations, international non-government organizations, governments of host countries and its citizens. The book presents the cases and experiences of countries that are endowed with resource, as well as have experienced different forms of human insecurity and have witnessed environmental conflicts in its analysis, which make the discourse interesting and quite educating.

Author : Shahrbanou Tadjbakhsh,Anuradha Chenoy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2007-02-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134134236

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Human Security by Shahrbanou Tadjbakhsh,Anuradha Chenoy Pdf

This book, now available in paperback, traces the key evolutions in the development of the concept of human security, the various definitions and critiques, how it relates to other concepts, and what it implies for polities, politics, and policy. Human security is an important subject for the whole world, in particular Asia, as it deals with interactions among fields of social change, such as development, conflict resolution, human rights, and humanitarian assistance. In a globalizing world, in which threats become trans-national and states lose power, security can no longer be studied in a one-dimensional fashion. Written by authors who are experts in this field and with case studies from different regions (Afghanistan, Central Asia and South Asia) presented throughout, this book - now available in paperback - contributes to this new multidimensional conception of security, analyzes its strengths and weaknesses, and focuses on its implications for analysis and action.

Author : Ezra Chitando,Joram Tarusarira
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019-02-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780429671579

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Religion and Human Security in Africa by Ezra Chitando,Joram Tarusarira Pdf

Across diverse countries and contexts in Africa, religion has direct implications for human security. While some individuals and groups seek to manipulate and control through the deployment of religion, religious belief is also a common facet of those working towards peace and reconciliation. Despite the strategic importance of religion to human security in Africa, there are few contemporary publications that explore this issue on an international scale. This volume redresses that imbalance by examining religion’s impact on human security across Africa. Written by an international team of contributors, this book looks in detail at the intersection of religion and security in a variety of African contexts. Case studies from a diverse set of countries including Nigeria, Ghana, South Africa, Burkina Faso, and more, are used to illustrate wider trends across the continent. Acknowledging that religion can be used to incite violence as well as encourage peace, the chapters employ an interdisciplinary exploration of the ethics, sociology, and politics around these issues. This is much needed volume on religion’s capacity to effect human security. It will, therefore, be of significant interest to any scholar of religious studies, African studies, political science, the sociology of religion, and anthropology, as well as peace, conflict, and reconciliation studies.

Author : Francis Wiafe-Amoako
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780739191347

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Human Security and Sierra Leone's Post-Conflict Development by Francis Wiafe-Amoako Pdf

Managing post-conflict progress has been an elusive task for policymakers and other stakeholders. This book discusses domestic peace, security, and development in Sierra Leone, and argues for human security as the basis for building a sustainable post-conflict environment.

Author : Oberleitner, Gerd
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2022-10-14
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781800376977

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Research Handbook on International Law and Human Security by Oberleitner, Gerd Pdf

This comprehensive Research Handbook considers the place of human security, both in practice and as a concept within international law, examining the preconditions for and consequences of applying human security to international legal thinking and practice. It also proposes a future international law in which human security is central to the law’s purpose. This title contains one or more Open Access chapters.

Author : Bessie House-Soremekun,Toyin Falola
Publisher : University Rochester Press
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781580463928

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Globalization and Sustainable Development in Africa by Bessie House-Soremekun,Toyin Falola Pdf

The first comprehensive work on globalization within the context of sustainable development initiatives in Africa.

Author : John Glenn
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2012-08-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134530984

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Globalization by John Glenn Pdf

Rather than claim that there exists a common concept of globalization that all parties can agree to, this book seeks to examine some of the conceptions and the way in which they render different interpretations of particular aspects of globalization. The last two decades have witnessed an explosive proliferation of academic writings on the subject of globalization, which has been accompanied by a high level of interest in the media and widespread usage of the term. This has inevitably resulted in the meaning of the concept broadening to include a whole host of issues, running the attendant risk of losing any conceptual focus it had. John Glenn examines five issue areas affected by globalization: the economy sovereignty civil society governance communication. In so doing, the book aims to articulate certain questions within each area, which will allow for some judgment to be made concerning the differing perspectives on globalization. Globalization will be of interest to students of international political economy and politics and international relations in general.

Author : Giorgio Shani,Makoto Sato
Publisher : Springer
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2007-11-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230592520

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Protecting Human Security in a Post 9/11 World by Giorgio Shani,Makoto Sato Pdf

Written by leading authorities from Asia, Africa, Europe, and North and South America, this groundbreaking volume offers the first truly global and critical perspective on human security in the post 9/11 world. The collection offers unique interpretations on mainstream discourses on human security.

Author : Alessandro Gobbicchi,Centro militare di studi strategici (Italy)
Publisher : Rubbettino Editore
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 8849808259

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Globalization, Armed Conflicts and Security by Alessandro Gobbicchi,Centro militare di studi strategici (Italy) Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Armed Forces
ISBN : UOM:39015085881509

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Environmental Change and Security Project Report by Anonim Pdf

Author : Linda E. Lucas
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0739121588

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Unpacking Globalization by Linda E. Lucas Pdf

Unpacking Globalization examines the experiences of people living with the forces that are transforming economic systems, culture, gender relationships and governance. The book offers interdisciplinary analysis of the well-being of women and men as they cope with the changes of globalization. Through theory, case studies, and data, several themes emerge indicating that from the household to the continental level, change is leading to new awareness and new survival strategies for both women and men. The contributors to the volume come from Africa, Asia, Europe, and North and South America. They present analysis of global changes and historical background from diverse perspectives and offer case studies on social security, gender, and macroeconomy. They employ feminist theory as well as detail the experiences of current and future women entrepreneurs. An exciting interdisciplinary text, Unpacking Globalization can supplement women's studies, anthropology, sociology, and economic development courses.