At a time when environmental crises and global pandemics pose interconnected existential threats to the very continuation of life, we urgently need to rethink our security priorities. This book explains why insecurity has become such a ubiquitous feature of life in the 21st century and why policymakers, strategic analysts and many scholars are failing to recognise or address its underlying causes. Beeson, a leading expert in international relations, analyses the forces creating the epidemic of insecurity that is currently sweeping the world and argues that power politics and militarism are not going to help us cure it.…mehr
At a time when environmental crises and global pandemics pose interconnected existential threats to the very continuation of life, we urgently need to rethink our security priorities. This book explains why insecurity has become such a ubiquitous feature of life in the 21st century and why policymakers, strategic analysts and many scholars are failing to recognise or address its underlying causes. Beeson, a leading expert in international relations, analyses the forces creating the epidemic of insecurity that is currently sweeping the world and argues that power politics and militarism are not going to help us cure it.
Mark Beeson is Professor of International Politics at the University of Western Australia. His work is centred on the politics, economics and security of the Asia-Pacific region and he has written over 150 journal articles and books. He is the co-editor of Contemporary Politics and the founding editor of Critical Studies of the Asia Pacific (Palgrave).
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction 1. Getting real: The way the world works? 2. Hope springs? Peace, progress and pluralism 3. Environmental security 4. The psychological dimensions of security 5. (Not so?) grand strategy? 6. Unequal security Conclusion
Introduction 1. Getting real: The way the world works? 2. Hope springs? Peace, progress and pluralism 3. Environmental security 4. The psychological dimensions of security 5. (Not so?) grand strategy? 6. Unequal security Conclusion
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