What role should national militaries play in an increasingly globalised and interdependent world? The Cosmopolitan Military examines the often difficult transition they have made toward missions aimed at protecting civilians and promoting human security. It poses the question of…
"What role should national militaries play in an increasingly globalised and interdependent world? The Cosmopolitan Military examines the often difficult transition they have made toward missions aimed at protecting civilians and promoting human security. It poses the question o…
1. State of emergency -- 2. Protect and survive -- 3. The nature of resilience -- 4. Securing emergence -- 5. The technological subject of resilience.
Though the terms national security or state security indicate concern with only one state, it is axiomatic that in today's world (and perhaps since the beginning of time), the security of any state can only be ensured in a broader, multilateral framework to ensure international …
Human rights has become such a core part of international relations and geopolitics, cited all the time in both the positive and negative, that it is often forgotten how new the entire concept is. Though human rights experts like to trace the origin of the concept of rights to t…
The ongoing lack of clarity surrounding some of the key concepts of human security mean that definitional issues remain contentious issues of debate within human security circles. It is clear that human security has had, and continues to have, a role to play in changing the para…
This book provides innovative thinking from a variety of perspectives on the important human rights, human security, and national security policy issues of today-and how these issues intersect.
