Overview

This Handbook will serve as a standard reference guide to the subject of human security, which has grown greatly in importance over the past 15 years, since the concept was first promoted by the UNDP in its 1993 and 1994 Human Development Reports. The volume fills a clear gap in the literature on human security and provides a broad overview of human security scholarship and thinking, reflecting the multi-disciplinary perspectives which have informed the development of the concept of and its policy use. It elaborates how human security has been theorised, and shows the variety of policy applications attached to it, as well as tackling some of the methodological issues which it raises. It draws on three broad aspects of human security thinking: Theoretical issues to do with defining human security as a specific discourse Human security from a policy and institutional perspective, and how it is operationalised in different policy and geographic contexts Case studies and empirical work Featuring some of the leading scholars in the field, the Routledge Handbook of Human Security will be essential reading for all students of human security, critical security, conflict and development, peace and conflict studies, and of great interest to students of international security and IR in general.

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Author:   Mary Martin (London School of Economics, UK) ,  Taylor Owen (Oxford University, UK)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 17.40cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 24.60cm
Weight:   0.796kg
ISBN:  

9780415581288

ISBN 10:   0415581281
Pages:   368
Publication Date:   31 October 2013
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction, Mary Martin and Taylor Owen Part I: Concepts of Human Security 1. Birth of a Discourse, Amartya Sen 2. From definitions to investigating a discourse, Des Gasper 3. In Defense of the Broad View of Human Security, Shahrbanou Tadjbakhsh 4. Human Security Thresholds, Taylor Owen 5. Filling the security gap. Human Security, Human Rights and Human Development, Mary Kaldor 6. Critical Perspectives on Human Security, Keith Krause 7. The Siren Song of Human Security, Ryerson Christie 8. Why Human Security?The Case for Resilience in an Urban Century, Peter Liotta and Aybüke Bilgin Part II: Human Security Applications 9. Violent conflict and the individual security dilemma, Mient Jan Faber and Martijn Dekker 10. Security and development. Context specific approaches to human insecurity, Richard Jolly 11. Human Security in the R2P Era, Lloyd Axworthy 12. Human Security and War, Jennifer Leaning 13. Human Security and Natural Disasters, Thea Hilhorst, Alp Ozerdem and Erin Smith 14. Food and Human Security, Robert Bailey 15. Navigating the 'national security' barrier:a human security agenda for arms control in the 21st century, Deepayan Basu Ray 16. Adjusting the Paradigm: A Human Security Framework for Combating Terrorism, Cindy R. Jebb and Andrew A. Gallo Part III: Human Security Actors 17. The United Nations and Human Security: Between Solidarism and Pluralism, Edward Newman 18. Japan and Networked Human Security, Yukio Takasu 19. The European Union and Human Security. The making of a global security actor, Javier Solana 20. The Pan-Africanization of Human Security, Thomas Kwasi Tieku 21. Human Security and Asia, Paul Evans Part IV: Human Security Tools 22. Econometrics and human security, Mansoob Murshed 23. From Concept to Method: The challenge of a human security methodology, Mary Martin and Denisa Kostovicova 25. Human Security Mapping, Taylor Owen 25. Human security: idea, policy, and law, Gerd Oberleitner Conclusion, Taylor Owen and Mary Martin

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