1st Edition

Human Security as Statecraft Structural Conditions, Articulations and Unintended Consequences

By Nik Hynek Copyright 2012
256 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge

This book critically investigates the discourses and practices of human security and aims to delve below the stereotypical imageries representing them.    Drawing on Foucault and Deleuze, the author approaches human security from a new perspective, with the aim of ascertaining what has been behind and underneath a certain spatio-temporal articulation of human security, and with... Read more

Introduction  1. Conceptual Framework  2. Imageries of Human Security  3. Canadian Conditions of Possibility  4. The Landmine Case as a Rhizomatic Assemblage  5. Hybridised Human Security Assemblage  6. Structural Conditions for Japanese Continuity  7. Japanese Human Security as Continuing Politics of Convergence  8. Domopolitical Assemblage of Japanese Human Security.  Conclusions 

Biography

Nikola Hynek is Research Leader of the Centre for International Security at the Institute of International Relations (IIR) in Prague, and Lecturer at Charles University in Prague.