About the Book

This book offers both a critical discourse and regional perspectives on the major challenges for promoting human security in a post 9/11 world.

Book Synopsis

Written by leading authorities from Asia, Africa, Europe, and North and South America, this groundbreaking volume offers the first truly global and critical perspective on human security in the post 9/11 world. The collection offers unique interpretations on mainstream discourses on human security.

Review Quotes

'In adopting a thoroughly reflexive approach to the human security paradigm this collection delivers a (theoretically and empirically) rich analysis of its explanatory and normative power' - from the preface by Professor Anthony G. McGrew, University of Southampton, UK (p.x)

About the Author

CHRIS ALDEN is Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK JACQUELINE BERMAN is Senior Research Analyst for Berkeley Policy Associates (BPA) AN GIBSON is an Associate Professor in the Inter-Faculty Institute for International Studies (IIIS) at Ritsumeikan University, Japan JUN HONNA is Associate Professor in the College of International Relations at Ritsumeikan University, Japan ANTHONY G. MCGREW is Professor and Head of School of the Social Science at Southampton University, UK YOICHI MINE is Director in Charge of Administration, the Japan Association for African Studies, and Professor in the Graduate School of Human Sciences, Osaka University, Japan JORGE NEF is Professor and Director of Latin American, Caribbean and Latino Studies, and Professor of Political Science at the University of South Florida (USF) in Tampa, USA BETTY A. REARDON is Director Emeritus of the Peace Education Program and Center at Teachers College, Columbia University, USA HUSSEIN SOLOMON is Professor in the Department of Political Sciences and is Director of the Centre for International Political Studies at the University of Pretoria, South Africa