Human security and the UN : a critical history / S. Neil MacFarlane and Yuen Foong Khong

Englisch

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2006

Online-Ressource (xix, 346 p) ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-323) and index

Print version: Human Security and the UN : A Critical History

0-253-21839-X

0-253-34714-9

Weitere Ausgaben: 978-0-253-34714-5 (Druckausgabe)

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

*Security (Psychology) -- International cooperation ; Economic security -- International cooperation ; Security, International ; Human rights -- International cooperation ; United Nations ; National security -- International cooperation ; Internal security -- International cooperation

*Economic security ; International cooperation ; Human rights ; International cooperation ; Internal security ; International cooperation ; National security ; International cooperation ; Security (Psychology) ; International cooperation ; Security, International ; United Nations ; Electronic books

Klassifikation der Library of Congress: JZ4971

Dewey Dezimal-Klassifikation: 341.7/2;

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 some

 

Online-Ausg.

2009

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