Globalization and environmental challenges reconceptualizing security in the 21st century /
"Globalization and Environmental Challenges poses new security dangers and concerns. In this reference book on global security thinking, 92 authors from five continents and many disciplines, from science and practice, assess the global reconceptualization of security triggered by the end of the...
| Other Authors: | Brauch, Hans Günter, 1947-, SpringerLink (Online service) |
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Berlin ; New York :
Springer,
©2008.
Berlin ; New York : [2008] |
| Physical Description: |
1 online resource (xxviii, 1147 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
| Series: |
Hexagon series on human and environmental security and peace ;
v. 3. |
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Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgements; Permissions and Credits; Rethinking Security in the New Century
- Return to the Grotean Pattern; Peace, Development, Ecology and Security IPRA 40 Years alter Groningen; Globalization from Below: Ecofeminist Alternatives to Corporate Globalization; Towards a Human Security Perspective for the Mediterranean; Part I Introduction: Theoretical Contexts for Security Reconceptualizations since 1990; 1 Introduction: Globalization and Environmental Challenges: Reconceptualizing Security in the 21st Century; 2 Security as Attributes of Social Systems.
- Part II The Conceptual Quartet: Security, Peace, Development and Environment and its Dyadic Linkages3 Conceptual Quartet: Security and its Linkages with Peace, Development, and Environment; 4 Peace and Security: Two Evolving Concepts and Their Changing Relationship; 5 Peace and Environment: Towards a Sustainable Peace as Seen From the South; 6 Underdevelopment and Human Insecurity: Overcoming Systemic, Natural, and Policy Risk; 7 Emergent Sustainability: The Concept of Sustainable Development in a Complex World.
- 8 Development and Security: Genealogy and Typology of an Evolving International Policy Area9 Security and Environment Linkages Revisited; Part III Philosophical, Ethical and Religious Contexts for Conceptualizations of Security; 10 Oriental, European, and Indigenous Thinking on Peace in Latin America; 11 Security in Hinduism and Buddhism; 12 Security in Chinese, Korean, and Japanese Philosophy and Ethics; 13 Security in Confucian Thought: Case of Korea; 14 Security in Japanese History, Philosophy and Ethics: Impact on Contemporary Security Policy.
- 15 Thinking on Security in Hinduism: Contemporary Political Philosophy and Ethics in India16 Human Security in Jewish Philosophy and Ethics; 17 From Homer to Hobbes and Beyond
- Aspects of 'Security' in the European Tradition; 18 Security Conceptualization in Arab Philosophy and Ethics and Muslim Perspectives; 19 Security in African Philosophy and Historical Ideas; 20 Security in Latin American Philosophy, Ethics, and History of Ideas; 21 The Brazilian View on the Conceptualization of Security: Philosophical, Ethical and Cultural Contexts and Issues.
- Part IV Spatial Context and Referents of Security Concepts22 Securitization of Space and Referent Objects; 23 Structural Setting for Global Environmental Politics in a Hierarchic International System: A Geopolitical View; 24 Global Environmental Change and Human Security; 25 Globalization and Security: The US 'Imperial Presidency': Global Impacts in Iraq and Mexico; 26 Globalization from Below: Social Movements and Altermundism
- Reconceptualizing Security from a Latin American Perspective; 27 Security Regionalism in Theory and Practice.