Protecting Human Security in a Post 9/11 World

This book offers both a critical discourse and regional perspectives on the major challenges for promoting human security in a post 9/11 world.

Written by leading authorities from Asia, Africa, Europe, and North and South America, this groundbreaking volume offers the first truly global and critical perspective on human security in the post 9/11 world. The collection offers unique interpretations on mainstream discourses on human security; blends theory and comparative analysis of the human security condition in innovative ways; and opens up the field to a new research agenda in critical human security to offer a challenging and provocative perspective on a key global issue.

GIORGIO SHANI is Associate Professor in the College of International Relations, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan. He is author of Sikh Nationalism and Identity in a Global Age, as well as numerous articles in internationally recognised journals, including The Cambridge Review of International Affairs.
MAKOTO SATO is Professor in the College of International Relations, and is currently serving as Dean of Research at Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan. Professor Sato was Senior Associate Member at St Anthony’s College, Oxford, UK, from April 2004 to March 2005. He is the author of many books and articles in both Japanese and English on human security, international migration, southern Africa and Japanese diplomacy. Recent major publications include Human Security: Meeting Global Challenges edited with Tsugio Ando.
MUSTAPHA KAMAL PASHA is Professor and Chair of the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Aberdeen, UK. Previously, he taught at the School of International Service, American University in Washington, DC (1993-2005), USA. In 2001, he was Program Director of the Annual Convention of the International Studies Association and currently serves on the ISA’s Nominating Committee. He is the author or co-author of three books and has been widely published in leading journals in the field, including Alternatives, Millennium, Journal of Developing Areas, Studies in Comparative International Development, and Critical Review of International Social Philosophy and Politics.

Foreword–A.G.McGrew * Introduction: Protecting Human Security in a Post 9/11 World–G.Shani * PART I: CRITICAL INSIGHTS * ‘Democratic Imperialism’, ‘Neo-liberal Globalization’ and Human In/Security in the Global South–G.Shani * The ‘Vital Core’: From Bare Life to the Biopolitics of Human Security–J.Berman * Human Security: Toward Gender Inclusion?–I.Gibson & B.Reardon * Downside Risks and Human Security–Y.Mine * PART II: GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES * Human Security and Japanese Diplomacy: Debates on the Role of Human Security in Japanese Policy–M.Sato * Transnational Crime and Human Insecurity in South East Asia–J.Honna * Globalization, The ‘War on Terror’ and Human In/Security in South Asia–G.Shani * Human Security in Sub-Saharan Africa: Conflict Resolution and the Role of Civil Society–H.Solomon * Human Security and the Limits of International Intervention: A Comparison of Post-Conflict Angola and Mozambique–C.Alden * Human Security and Insecurity: A Perspective from the Other America–J.Nef * Human Security and Exceptionalism(s): Securitization, Neoliberalism and Islam–M.K.Pasha * Conclusion–G.Shani