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Informationen zum Autor Fathali M. Moghaddam is Professor, Department of Psychology and Director, Conflict Resolution Program, Department of Government, at Georgetown University. He is also Senior Fellow at the Center for Interdisciplinary Policy, Education and Research on Terrorism. Dr. Moghaddam has been published extensively on the psychology of intergroup conflict, subjective justice, radicalization, and terrorism. The American Psychological Association's Society for the Study of Peace, Conflict and Violence awarded Dr. Moghaddam its 2007 Lifetime Achievement Award. His most recent books include From the Terrorists' Point of View: What They Experience and Why They Come to Destroy (Praeger Security International, 2006) and Multiculturalism and Intergroup Relations: Psychological Implications for Democracy in Global Context (2008). Klappentext A noted conflict expert shows how accelerating globalization is causing dangerous global insecurity that must be met by new security models and policies. The New Global Insecurity: How Terrorism, Environmental Collapse, Economic Inequalities, and Resource Shortages Are Changing Our World explores insecurity arising out of accelerating globalization. In this unique and forward-thinking work, psychologist Fathali M. Moghaddam, director of the Conflict Studies Program at Georgetown University, explains how and why worldwide insecurity is rising and what steps we must take to quell or reverse that insecurity to make the future of the world more peaceful.The book first analyzes the elements and roots of global insecurity, discussing it in relation to terrorism, torture, economic instability, threatened identity, and religious fundamentalism. It then puts forward a new model for understanding security, wherein "soft security capital" serves as the enabling condition for "hard security capital." Finally, the current policies for managing diversity, "multiculturalism" and "assimilation" are both rejected in favor of an exciting new policy-"omniculturalism". Drawing on his years of study and expertise, Moghaddam likewise proposes a new policy for better managing intergroup relations in an insecure age. Zusammenfassung A noted conflict expert shows how accelerating globalization is causing dangerous global insecurity that must be met by new security models and policies. ...
