UID:
almafu_9960819789802883
Format:
1 online resource (xv, 278 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
1-009-27015-X
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1-009-27014-1
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1-009-27011-7
Content:
How do we know when we are investing wisely in security? Answering this question requires investigating what things are worth securing (and why); what threatens them; how best to protect them; and how to think about it. Is it possible to protect them? How best go about protecting them? What trade-offs are involved in allocating resources to security problems? This book responds to these questions by stripping down our preconceptions and rebuilding an understanding of security from the ground up on the basis of a common-sense ontology and an explicit theory of value. It argues for a clear distinction between objective and subjective security threats, a non-anthropocentric understanding of security, and a particular hierarchy of security referents, looking closely at four in particular-the ecosphere, the state, culture, and individual human beings. The analysis will be of interest not only to students and scholars of International Relations, but also to practitioners.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Sep 2022).
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Cover -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- A Note on the Russian Invasion of Ukraine -- Introduction -- 1 The Meaning of 'Security' -- Defining 'Security' -- Securing -- Security, Securitization, and Threat Perception -- Securitization -- Threat Perception -- 2 What Is Worth Securing, and Why? -- Two Kinds of Value -- Intrinsic Value -- Extrinsic Value -- Securitizing Value -- Anthropocentrism Reconsidered -- Operational Implications -- 3 Ecospheric Security -- The Value of the Ecosphere -- Threats to the Ecosphere -- Securing the Ecosphere -- Toward a Genuinely Post-human Politics of Ecospheric Security -- 4 State Security -- The Value of the State -- Threats to the State -- Which States Are Worth Securing? -- 5 Cultural Security -- The Value of Culture -- Threats to Culture -- Nonanthropogenic vs. Anthropogenic Threats -- Genocide -- Cultural Appropriation -- Language Death -- Milieu Change -- If Not Cultural 'Security,' What? -- 6 Human Security -- Individuals or Groups? -- Human Security and Human Rights -- Threats to Human Security -- Human Security in a Hierarchy of Needs -- Conclusion -- Security Interactions -- Providing Security in a Complex, Globally Networked World -- The Problems of Metaphysical and Value Pluralism -- References -- Index.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Welch, David A. Security New York : University of Waterloo, University Press, [2022] ISBN 9781009270106
Language:
English
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009270113
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