Human Security and the UN : A Critical History


S. Neil. MacFarlane
Bok Engelsk 2006 · Electronic books.
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Utgitt
Bloomington, IN : : Indiana University Press, , 2006.
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1 online resource (369 p.)
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Description based upon print version of record.. - Cover; Contents; Foreward; 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; Untitled. - 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? Neil MacFarlane and Yuen Foong Khong tackle these questions by analyzing historical and contemporary debates about what is to be secured. From Westphalia through the 19th century, the state's claim to be the object of security was sustainable because it offered its subjects
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025321839X. - 0253347149

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