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Rethinking Insecurity, War and Violence: Beyond Savage Globalization? book cover

1st Edition

Rethinking Insecurity, War and Violence Beyond Savage Globalization?

Edited By Damian Grenfell, Paul James Copyright 2009
256 Pages
by Routledge

246 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge
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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... Read more

PART I: RECONCEPTUALIZING INSECURITY

Introduction: Part One

1. Debating Insecurity in a Globalizing World: An Introduction

Damian Grenfell and Paul James

2. Globalizing Empire, Nationalism and Violence

Paul James and Tom Nairn

3. Globalization, Civil Society and Human Security

Mary Kaldor (to be confirmed)

4. Global Capitalism and the Politics of Risk

James Goodman

PART II: GLOBALIZING INSECURITY

Introduction: Part Two

5. The Spectacle of Terror: Postmodern Wars and the Therapeutic Security Paradigm

Michael Humphrey

6. The Effect of Mediation? Embodied Sympathy and Control in the Global War on Terror

Kirsty Best

7. The Recursion of Postcolonialism and Challenges to Mainstream International Relations

Phillip Darby

8. The Consequences of Ecological Risk and Broadening the Field of Security Studies

Robyn Eckersley

PART III: GLOBALIZING REGIONAL CONFLICTS

Introduction: Part Three

9. Zones of Conflict and the Global War on Terror

Martin Griffiths

10. Political Regimes and the War on Terror in South East Asia

Garry Rodan

11. Insecurity, Risk, Identity and the War in Kosovo

John Tulloch

12. Globalization and the Conflict in Israel/Palestine

Jamal Nassar (to be confirmed)

PART IV: RECONCILING DIFFERENCE IN A GLOBALIZING WORLD

Introduction: Part Four

13. Resilience: Conditions for Reconstruction in Peripheral Communities

John Handmer

14. Reconstruction: Negotiating Governance after Major Conflict

Richard Caplan (to be confirmed)

15. Recovery: Taming the Rwa Bhineda after the Bali Bombings

Jeff Lewis and Belinda Lewis

16. Reconciliation: Violence and Gender in East Timor

Damian Grenfell

Biography

Damian Grenfell is a researcher in the Globalism Institute at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia.

Paul James is Academic Director of the Globalism Institute at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia and Director of the United Nations Global Compact, Cities Program (UNGCCP).

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