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.
Author(s): Damian Grenfell, Paul James
Series: Rethinking Globalizations
Edition: 1
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2008
Language: English
Commentary: 44666
Pages: 246
Tags: Международные отношения;Международные отношения;
Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 6
Copyright......Page 7
Contents......Page 8
Contributors......Page 10
Acknowledgements......Page 12
Part I: Globalizing insecurity......Page 14
1 Debating insecurity in a globalizing world......Page 16
2 Globalization and the changing face of war......Page 33
3 Globalization and the limits of current security paradigms......Page 46
4 Global capitalism and the production of insecurity......Page 57
Part II: Reconceptualizing security......Page 70
5 New wars and the therapeutic security paradigm......Page 72
6 Beyond the construction of consent in the war on terror......Page 84
7 Environmental security, climate change, and globalizing terrorism......Page 98
8 Recasting Western knowledges about (postcolonial) security......Page 111
Part III: Rethinking localized transnational conflicts......Page 124
9 Zones of conflict and the global War on Terror......Page 126
10 Political regimes in Southeast Asia and the War on Terror......Page 138
11 Insecurity, risk, identity, and violence in Kosovo......Page 151
12 Beyond ethnocracy and conflict in Israel/Palestine?......Page 165
Part IV: Renewal in the aftermath of violence......Page 180
13 Governance: Rule and reconstruction after war......Page 182
14 Reconciliation: Violence and nation formation in Timor-Leste......Page 194
15 Recovery: Taming the rwa bhineda after the Bali bombings......Page 207
16 Resilience: Wantoks, transnational traders and global politics......Page 221
Index......Page 234
