1st Edition
Human Security, Changing States and Global Responses Institutions and Practices
Foreword, Hideaki Asahi 1. Introduction: The State and Human Security, Sangmin Bae PART I: STATE BEHAVIOR, PREFERENCES, AND PERFORMANCE 2. Environmental Change and Human Security, Richard Matthew 3. Human Security Emergent? Post-Authoritarian and Post-Neoliberal Discourse and Public Policy in Latin America, David Leaman 4. Why Human Security, Why Japan, Misako Kaji PART II: THE STATE DURING THE HUMAN SECURITY CRISIS 5. Aspiring Powers and Human Security: A Case Study from the Haitian Earthquake, Courtney Hillebrecht and Patrice C. McMahon 6. Gender, Global Crises, and Human Security, Gale Summerfield 7. The Fukushima Disaster and Human Security in Japan: From "Atoms for Peace" to People’s Peace, Makoto Maruyama PART III: THE STATE AND INTERNATIONAL DYNAMICS 8. The European Union, Japan, and the Elusive Global Human Security Partnership, Martyn de Bruyn 9. Promises and Pretenses of Declining Street Homelessness in the United States and Japan: A Human Security Perspective, Matthew Marr 10. Water Scarcity and Food Security: Lessons from the International Food Crop Trade between Japan and the United States, Jenny Kehl
Biography
Sangmin Bae is Associate Professor of Political Science at Northeastern Illinois University. She is author of When the State No Longer Kills: International Human Rights Norms and Abolition of Capital Punishment (2007).
Makoto Maruyama is Professor of Political Economy in the Department of Advanced Social and International Studies at the University of Tokyo. He is co-editor of Japanese Economy and Society under Pax-Americana (2002).
