Human Security and International Insecurity deals with the origins and developments of human security as a concept and how it is used in policy practice. It presents new approaches by focusing on alternative discourses

Human Security and International Insecurity outlines the challenges human security faces in different parts of the world due to:

• conflict, terrorism and new wars
• globalization and the resurgence of religion
• development cooperation, environmental problems and the role of science

Facing the challenges, this book aims to raise human security out of the status of contemporary problems by bringing it closer to a resolution.

Contents

Part I Conflict and Agency

• Human Security: Mapping the Challenges
• Conflict, Development and Discourse
• ‘New Wars’ and The State: The Nexus Religion-Human Security

Part II Local and Global Discourses

• Is a Right to Technology an Antidote to War?
• Local Discourses on War-Related Resource Predation in Sub- Saharan Africa
• New Terrorism and Human Security in the Middle East: Diverging Perceptions
• Military Tendencies and Global Security: Is There an Alternative?
• The Sacred Realm: Domain of New Threats and Challenges
• Global Security and The Unflat World

Part III Governance and Policies

• Thinking Ahead, Moving Forwards from World ‘Problématique’ to ‘World Résolutique’
• Incorporating Environment into Governance and National Planning: Lessons from the Global 2000 Project and the Threshold 21 Model
• Knowledge for the Sustainability Transition: Earth System Governance as a Crosscutting Theme of Global Change Research
• HIV/AIDS: The Controversial Role of Discourse and Governance
• Coalitions of Responsible People as Agents of Change
• Towards a Non-Violent Discourse in Science

Conclusions

Human Security and International Security: The Quest for Humane Global Governance

Index

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