Shahrbanou Tadjbakhsh, Anuradha Chenoy

Human Security

Concepts and implications

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Produktbeschreibung

Tracing the key evolutions in the development of the concept of human security, this book - now available in paperback - contributes to this new multidimensional conception of security, showing its strengths and weaknesses, as well as its implications for analysis and action.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Dezember 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 243mm x 161mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 562g
• ISBN-13: 9780415407274
• ISBN-10: 0415407273
• Artikelnr.: 21715421

Autorenporträt

Shahrbanou Tadjbakhsh is the Director of the Center for Peace and Human Security at L'Institut d' Etudes Politiques (Sciences Po) in Paris, where she teaches courses on human security and on international organizations and is editor of the Human Security Journal, an online publication. She has also taught on human security as an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University in New York. Between 1995 and 2002, she was a staff member of the United Nations Development Programme, and currently continues to work as a consultant with teams preparing national Human Development Reports. She has written numerous articles on human development, human security and gender issues as well as on the application of these discourses in Central Asia and in Afghanistan. Anuradha M. Chenoy is Professor in the School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University New Delhi, where she has been the Chairperson and Director of the Area Studies Program for Russia and Central Asia. She has also been on the governing bodies of several institutions in India and internationally, and has served as a specialist for various Meetings of the United Nations. She writes extensively in Journals and newspapers on international relations, gender and social issues.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part 1: Concepts 1. Rationale and Political Usage 2.
Definitions, Critiques and Counter-Critiques 3. A Paradigm Shift in
Security Studies? 4. Human Security and Human Development: Shadow or
Threshold? 5. Debating Dignity: Human Security and Human Rights Part 2:
Implications 6. Underdevelopment and Conflict: A Vicious Cycle? 7. The
State and its Domestic Responsibilities 8. Intervention, Engagement and the
Responsibilities of the International Community 9. Externalities of Human
Security: The Role of International Aid 10. Concluding Thoughts: Whither
Human Security?