1st Edition
Critical Perspectives on Human Security Rethinking Emancipation and Power in International Relations
1. Introduction: Emancipation and Power in Human Security Nik Hynek and David Chandler Part I 2. ‘We the Peoples’: Contending Discourses of Security in Human Rights Theory and Practice Tim Dunne and Nicholas J. Wheeler 3. Development of the Human Security Field: A Critical Examination David Bosold 4. Post-Colonial Hybridity and the Return of Human Security Oliver P. Richmond 5. Towards a Critical Security Paradigm? Reconceptualizing the ‘Vital Core’ of Human Security Giorgio Shani 6. Human Security, Biopoverty and the Possibility for Emancipation David Roberts 7. Institutionalised and Co-opted: Why Human Security Has Lost Its Way Mandy Turner, Neil Cooper and Michael Pugh Part II 8. The Limits to Emancipation in the Human Security Framework Tara McCormack 9. Rethinking Global Discourses of Security David Chandler 10. Human Security and the Securing of Human Life: Tracing Global Sovereign and Biopolitical Rule Marc G. Doucet and Miguel de Larrinaga 11. Problematising Life under Biopower: A Foucauldian versus an Agambenite Critique of Human Security Suvi Alt 12. Rethinking Human Security: Economy, Governmentality and Hybridization of Individuals Nik Hynek 13. Human Security: Sovereignty, Citizenship, Disorder Kyle Grayson 14. Inhuman Security Mark Neocleous
Biography
David Chandler is Professor of International Relations at the University of Westminster. He is author of several books and edits the Journal of Statebuilding and Intervention.
Nik Hynek is Research Fellow at the Institute of International Relations in Prague and Lecturer at Charles University and Metropolitan University. Previously, he conducted research at the Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies (SIWPS) at Columbia University and at the BIOS Institute of the LSE. He has widely published on international security and theories of IR.
