India S Human Security

Author : Jason Miklian,Ashild Kolas
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136022487

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India's Human Security by Jason Miklian,Ashild Kolas Pdf

India's explosive economic growth and emerging power status make it a key country of interest for policymakers, researchers and scholars within South Asia and around the world. But while many of India's threats and conflicts are strategized and discussed extensively within the confines of security studies, strategic studies and conventional international relations perspectives, many less visible challenges are set to impact significantly on India's potential for economic growth as well as the human security and livelihoods of hundreds of millions of Indian citizens. Drawing on extensive research within India, this book looks at some of the ‘hidden risks’ that India faces, exploring how a broadened scope of what constitutes ‘risk’ itself holds value for Indian security studies practitioners and policymakers. It highlights several human security risks facing India, including the inability of the world’s largest democracy to deal effectively with widespread poverty and health issues, resource depletion and environmental mismanagement, pervasive corruption and institutionalized crime, communal violence, a protracted Maoist insurgency, and deadlocked peace processes in the Northeast among others. The book extracts common themes from these seemingly disparate problems, discussing what underlying failures allow them to persist and why policymakers heavily securitize some political issues while ignoring others. Providing an understanding of how several lesser-studied risks can pose potential or actual threats to Indian society and its ‘emerging power’ growth narrative, this book is a useful contribution to South Asian Studies, International Security Studies and Global Politics.

Author : Amitav Acharya,Subrat Kumar Singhdeo,M. Rajaretnam
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789814324892

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Human Security by Amitav Acharya,Subrat Kumar Singhdeo,M. Rajaretnam Pdf

Human security is a new paradigm for security, development and justice. Since it was first proposed in the 1990s, there has been an endless debate between its proponents and critics, and even among its advocates, over the meaning and utility of the concept. What is important now is to move the concept beyond the realm of theory and explore its practical applications, considering possible policy perspectives and implications. This book suggests new practical applications of the human security concept, such as human security mapping, the human security governance index and human security impact assessment. Using Northeast India and Orissa as case studies, the methodology introduced in this path-breaking book can be applied to conflict zones worldwide. By designating the individual rather than the state as the referent object of security, human security is emerging as a framework that can serve as a means to evaluate threats, foresee crises, analyze causes of discord and propose solutions entailing a redistribution of responsibilities.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789814462754

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Human Security: From Concept to Practice by Anonim Pdf

Author : Rekha Datta
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2010-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780739121559

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Beyond Realism by Rekha Datta Pdf

As the world is changing, many scholars, analysts, and policy makers agree that even as governments need to confront external threats, creating sustainable domestic environments is imperative as a policy priority. As events surrounding September 11, 2001 continue to remind us, marginalized sections of the population can become breeding grounds for dissatisfaction, disenchantment, and eventually, targets for terrorist groups. Throughout the cold war period, South Asia served as a strategic region in the bilateral rivalry between the United States and the former Soviet Union, coupled with China's careful scrutiny. In the post cold war period, several bilateral conflicts, the nuclear tests of 1998, the post 9/11 world in which South Asia has become a breeding ground for terrorists, entwined with an embattled, albeit a shared history, continue to make India and Pakistan a pivotal region to study. A timely analysis which starts with traditional approaches and combines them with new thinking within a human security policy framework, this book will contribute to a deeper and more holistic understanding of policy priorities of major players in a pivotal region of the world. It begins by analyzing security policies of India and Pakistan that have emerged in the context of geo-political concerns based on realist calculations. It also looks at the policies of the two governments in key areas such as the economy, education, public health, and safeguarding against gender-based violence. Concern with human security prompts analyses such as the one adopted in this book to argue that governments should empower and protect their citizens from serious threats to their survival. Home to a fifth of the world's population, large numbers of whom are reeling in poverty, where terrorism continues to be a concern, along with ongoing border disputes, India and Pakistan will find it imperative to make careful evaluations of this multipronged challenge to security. While it has relevance for regional policy priorities, this analysis also has broader implications for world powers such as the United States and China, for whom South Asia remains a key strategic area.

Author : Crispin Bates,Akio Tanabe,Minoru Mio
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317439158

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Human and International Security in India by Crispin Bates,Akio Tanabe,Minoru Mio Pdf

With its common colonial experience, an overarching cultural unity despite apparent diversities, and issues of nation-building cutting across national frontiers, South Asia offers a critical site on which to develop a discourse on regional security that centres on the notion of human security. This book analyses the progress that has been achieved since independence in multiple intersecting areas of human security development in India, the largest nation in South Asia, as well as considering the paradigms that might be brought to bear in future consideration and pursuance of these objectives. Providing original insights, the book analyses the idea of security based on specific human concerns cutting across state frontiers, such as socio-economic development, human rights, gender equity, environmental degradation, terrorism, democracy, and governance. It also discusses the realisation that human security and international security are inextricably inter-linked. The book gives an overview of Indian foreign policy, with particular focus on its relationship with China. It also looks at public health care in India, and issues of microfinance and gender. Democracy and violence in the country is discussed in-depth, as well as Muslim identity and community. Human and International Security in India will be of particular interest to researchers of contemporary South Asian History, South Asian Politics, Sociology and Development Studies.

Author : Adluri Subramanyam Raju
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000651560

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Human Security in South Asia by Adluri Subramanyam Raju Pdf

This book delves into the theory and praxis of human security in South Asia. Home to almost a quarter of the world’s population and fast emerging markets, South Asia holds social, geopolitical and economic significance in the current global context. The chapters in the volume: examine the challenges to human security through an exploration of environmental issues including water availability, electric waste, environmental governance and climate change; explore key themes such as development, displacement and migration, the role of civil society, sustainable development and poverty; and discuss developmental issues in South Asia and provide a holistic picture of non-military security issues. Bringing together scholars from varied disciplines, this comprehensive volume will be useful for researchers, teachers and students of international relations, human rights, political science, development studies, human geography and demography, defense and strategic studies, migration and diaspora studies, and South Asian studies.

Author : Vandana Asthana,A. C. Shukla
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781441118226

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Water Security in India by Vandana Asthana,A. C. Shukla Pdf

Few people actively engaged in India's water sector would deny that the Indian subcontinent faces serious problems in the sustainable use and management of water resources. Water resources in India have been subjected to tremendous pressures from increasing population, urbanization, industrialization, and modern agricultural methods. The inadequate access to clean drinking water, increase in water related disasters such as floods and droughts, vulnerability to climate change and competition for the resource amongst different sectors and the region poses immense pressures for sustainability of water systems and humanity. Water Security in India addresses these issues head on, analyzing the challenges that contemporary India faces if it is to create a water-secure world, and providing a hopeful, though guarded, road-map to a future in which India's life-giving and life-sustaining fresh water resources are safe, clean, plentiful, and available to all, secured for the people in a peaceful and ecologically sustainable manner.

Author : P. R. Chari,Sonika Gupta
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 8187358092

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Human Security in South Asia by P. R. Chari,Sonika Gupta Pdf

The word security has a military connotation and refers to the activities involved in protecting or defending a country, in which the State has a central role. This book argues that the State provides as well as threatens security, and that by broadening the concept of security to include both military and non-military threats such as those related to ecological, social, economic and political causes, a system of checks and balances can be introduced to regulate the State.

Author : Shailendra Kumar Agnihotri,B. Datta-Ray
Publisher : Concept Publishing Company
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : India, Northeastern
ISBN : 8180691659

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Perspective of Security and Development in North East India by Shailendra Kumar Agnihotri,B. Datta-Ray Pdf

The Papers In This Volume Addresses Various Issues Pertaining To Security And Development In North East India. Taking Stock Of Security Scenario, Both Internal And External, They Trace The Reasons For Militancy And Insurgency And Examine Their Adverse Impact An Economic And Industrial Development Of North East India.

Author : Ash Narain Roy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 15 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Economic development
ISBN : 1920030670

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Human Security in India by Ash Narain Roy Pdf

Author : Imran Ahmad Khan
Publisher : INTERDISCIPLINARY INSTITUTE OF HUMAN SECURITY & GOVERNANCE
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2022-09-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9788195515936

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DIFFERENT DIMENSIONS OF HUMAN SECURITY AND GOVERNANCE by Imran Ahmad Khan Pdf

This book contains twenty-nine Best Paper Award-winning articles presented in the IIHSG International Conference 2022 on Human Security and Governance organised by Interdisciplinary Institute of Human Security & Governance, Delhi, India in collaboration with Amity Institute of Liberal Arts, Amity University Mumbai; Centre for Conflict Studies, Middlebury Institute of International Studies, Monterey, CA, USA, Security Women, United Kingdom; Department of International Relations; Central University of Jharkhand, India; Department of Defence & Strategic Studies, Himachal Pradesh University, Shimla, India and Department of International Relations, University of Chittagong, Bangladesh. Total 537 human security experts presented paper in this virtual event from every corner of the globe like Italy, Poland, Nigeria, Philippines, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, Nepal, Pakistan, UK, USA, Bangladesh, Canada and so on. Best articles written by them is added in this volume. This book, Different Dimensions of Human Security & Governance tries to address various contemporary human security issues in global arena like – Health and Governance; Human Security, Education and Governance; Human Rights and Governance, Human Security and Sustainable Development; Women in Governance and Human Security; Human Security and Non-state Actors; Child Security and Governance; Human Security and Pandemic; Human Security and Law; Governance, State, Politics and Human Security’, Food Security and Governance and Defense, Strategy and Human Security’. I hope that this collection of essays can become a benchmark for the future as well as spur new research agendas and projects that will put the region into a much-needed conversation on the recent trends of human security and the modalities of tackling it by different types of governance.

Author : Akhil Ranjan Dutta
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Human rights
ISBN : 8189003321

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Human Security in North-East India by Akhil Ranjan Dutta Pdf

Contributed articles presented at a seminar organized by the Dept. of Political Science, University of Gauhati in Nov. 2006.

Author : Malcolm McIntosh,Alan Hunter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351278782

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New Perspectives on Human Security by Malcolm McIntosh,Alan Hunter Pdf

This book is testimony to the emergent nature of human security as an idea, as a useful construct and as an operational strategy. The aim is to showcase new directions that may enrich the human security agenda. Some human security discourse is still rooted in the traditional language of the aid-agency/UN development/economic growth models, often hostile to the corporate and business sector, and sometimes negligent of sustainability and climate change issues. Another limited and outmoded approach is an exaggerated focus on Western interventions, especially military ones, as a "solution" to problems in poor or conflict-prone areas. "Human Security" was introduced as a construct by the UNDP in 1994. The inherent combination of law-enforcement and people-centred humanitarianism has strived to provide an umbrella to both protect people from threats while empowering them to control their destinies. But with accelerating economic globalization and information flows there is a need to revisit the concept. A new paradigm of Sustainable Human Security is required. This book argues that proponents of a human security approach should welcome efforts to remove the barriers between enterprise, corporations, aid and development agencies, government agencies, citizen groups and the UN; and work towards multi-stakeholder approaches and solutions for vulnerable populations. Such an approach is clearly vital in responding to the imperatives of concerted action on issues such as climate change, HIV, terrorism, organised crime and poverty. The agenda may have changed, but it remains true that almost all human tragedies are avoidable. This book examines a number of global problems through the lens of human security and the needs of the individual: global governance; health; the environment and the exploitation of natural resources; peace and reconciliation; the responsibility to protect; and economic development and prosperity. In the latter case, the role of business in the human security pantheon is promulgated. There are many reasons why businesses may want to engage with the needs of vulnerable populations – not least the fact that companies cannot function without secure trading environments. In addition, there are growing demands for corporate responsibility and citizenship from markets, customers, shareholders, employees and, critically, communities. This book throws new light on the human security agenda. It will be essential reading for anyone involved in the debates on human security as well as for practitioners and scholars in international affairs, global governance, peace studies, climate change and the environment, healthcare, responsibility to protect and corporate responsibility.

Author : National Centre of International Security and Defence Analysis (Pune, India). Conference,Gautam Sen
Publisher : Atlantic Publishers & Dist
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : India
ISBN : 8126907886

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Conceptualizing Security for India in the 21st Century by National Centre of International Security and Defence Analysis (Pune, India). Conference,Gautam Sen Pdf

The Present Volume Is An Anthology Of Papers Presented In The First Nisda Security Conference In 2005 With Interdisciplinary Contributions From A Variety Of Professionals From Government Organization, Academics And Researchers On The Common Theme Of Conceptualizing The Notion Of Security In The 21St Century. It Entails A Multi-Pronged Input From Organizational, Bureaucratic And Academic Perspectives To Look At In A Focused Way The Indo-Centric View Towards The National And International Security Matters. It Is Hoped That The Volume Will Be Useful To The Policymakers As Well As The Students Of International Relations And International Security.

Author : Jorge Nef,International Development Research Centre (Canada)
Publisher : IDRC
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Developing countries
ISBN : 9780889368798

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Human Security and Mutual Vulnerability by Jorge Nef,International Development Research Centre (Canada) Pdf

Human Security and Mutual Vulnerability: The global political economy of development and underdevelopment (Second Edition)