Human Security and the Un - A Critical History

Informationen zum Autor S. Neil MacFarlane, Yuen Foong Khong Klappentext A hard-headed analysis of the role of the UN in translating ideas about human security from theory into practice Zusammenfassung How did the individual human being become the focus of the contemporary discourse on security? What was the role of the United Nations in "securing" the individual? What are the payoffs and costs of this extension of the concept? This book tackles these questions by analyzing historical and contemporary debates about what is to be secured. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword by Louis Emmerij, Richard Jolly, and Thomas G. Weiss Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction Part I. The Archaeology of Human Security 1. The Prehistory of Human Security 2. The UN and Human Security during the Cold War 3. The Evolving Critique of National Security Part II. The Emergence of Human Security 4. The UN and Human Security: The Development Dimension 5. The UN and Human Security: The Protection Dimension 6. Human Security and the Protection of Vulnerable Groups 7. Human Security and the UN: A Critique Conclusion Notes Index About the Authors About the United Nations Intellectual History Project

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• Authors: Yuen Foong Khong, Khong Yuen Foong, S Neil MacFarlane, S. Neil Macfarlane, S. Neil Khong Macfarlane, S.Neil MacFarlane, S.neil Khong Macfarlane, MacFarlane S Neil
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 13.02.2006
• EAN: 9780253218391
• ISBN: 978-0-253-21839-1
• No. of pages: 368
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 241 mm x 19 mm
• Series: United Nations Intellectual Hi; United Nations Intellectual History Project Series; United Nations Intellectual Hi
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education