Rethinking Insecurity, War and Violence: Beyond Savage Globalization? (Rethinking Globalizations: Vol. 15)

Synopsis

Rethinking Insecurity, War and Violence: Beyond Savage Globalization? is a collection of essays by scholars intent on rethinking the mainstream security paradigms. Overall, this collection is intended to provide a broad and systematic analysis of the long-term sources of political, military and cultural insecurity from the local to the global. The book provides a stronger basis for understanding the causes of conflict and violence in the world today, one that adds a different dimension to the dominant focus on finding proximate causes and making quick responses Too often the arenas of violence have been represented as if they have been triggered by reassertions of traditional and tribal forms of identity, primordial and irrational assertions of politics. Such ideas about the sources of insecurity have become entrenched in a wide variety of media sources, and have framed both government policies and academic arguments. Rather than treating the sources of insecurity as a retreat from modernity, this book complicates the patterns of global insecurity to a degree that takes the debates simply beyond assumptions that we are witnessing a savage return to a bloody and tribalized world. It will be of particular interest to students and scholars of international relations, security studies, gender studies and globalization studies.

Copyright:

2008

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Publisher Quality

ISBN-13:

9781134082421

Related ISBNs:

9780203894194, 9780415432269, 9780415432269, 9780415432276, 9780415432276

Publisher:

Taylor and Francis

Date of Addition:

04/02/20

Copyrighted By:

Damian Grenfell, Paul James

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

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No

Categories:

Nonfiction, Politics and Government

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This is a copyrighted book.

Edited by:

Damian Grenfell

Edited by:

Paul James