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This thoroughly revised second edition of a popular text explores the theory and application of concepts central to human security, the protection of individuals from harm. Through an examination of the critical questions and priorities, it grounds students in the conceptual roots as well as applications and challenges both in war and peacetime.
List of contents
Section I: Introduction to Human Security
1. Human Security-A New Security?
2. Historical Foundations of Human Security
3. Human Security Actors
4. Human Rights and Human Security
Section II: Armed Conflict and Human Security
5. From Non-Intervention to the Responsibility to Protect
6. Human Security in Peace Processes
7. Human Security and Peacebuilding
Section III: Durable Human Security
8. Durable Human Security: Breaking the Cycle of Insecurity
9. Health Security as Human Security
10. Gender Inequality and Security
11. Climate Change and Environmental Security
12. Food Security
Section IV: Conclusions
13. Human Security: An Essential Approach to Twenty-First Century Security Problems
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About the author
David Andersen-Rodgers is a professor of political science at California State University, Sacramento. His teaching and research has focused on human security, conflict-induced displacement, foreign policy decision-making, and small arms proliferation.
Kerry F. Crawford is an associate professor of Political Science at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia. She is the author of several books, including Wartime Sexual Violence (2017, Georgetown University Press), Human Security: Theory and Action (2018, Rowman & Littlefield), and The PhD Parenthood Trap (2021, Georgetown University Press). She teaches and researches subjects related to human security, conflict-related sexual violence, United Nations peacekeeping, public opinion on civilian casualties, and gender and bias in the academic profession.
