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Worlds apart : human security and global governance / edited by Majid Tehranian.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Human security and global governance ; 1.Publisher: London ; New York : I.B. Tauris in association with the Toda Institute for Global Peace and Policy Research, 1999Distributor: New York : Distributed in the United States and Canada by St. Martin's Press Description: xv, 236 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1860644449
  • 9781860644443
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 327.17 21
LOC classification:
  • JZ5595 .W67 1999
  • D860 .W67 1999
Online resources:
Contents:
Pursuing the quest for human security / Richard Falk -- Evolving security regimes / Laura Reed and Majid Tehranian -- Evolving governance regimes / Majid Tehranian and Laura Reed -- Global governance for human security / Mahbub ul-Haq -- Human security for women / Khadija Haq -- Nuclearism and its insecurities / David Kriger -- Cultural insecurities and global class formation / Jonathan Friedman -- English language hegemony and cultural security / Yukio Tsuda -- Human security through international citizenship / Stuart Rees and Lynda-ann Blanchard -- Looking forward / Majid Tehranian.
Summary: "This is volume one of a three-volume series arising from a collaborative international project on Human Security and Global Governance. It is based on the work of a number of peace and policy institutes and on the work of an international range of scholars, policymakers and community leaders. This volume focuses on the problems of security in the Asia-Pacific regions and concentrates on, for example, the economic diversity between the richest and poorest countries in the World, the old-style communist dictatorships and new-style market communism, democratic capitalism, authoritarian capitalism and cultural diversity."--Publisher description.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-223) and index.

Pursuing the quest for human security / Richard Falk -- Evolving security regimes / Laura Reed and Majid Tehranian -- Evolving governance regimes / Majid Tehranian and Laura Reed -- Global governance for human security / Mahbub ul-Haq -- Human security for women / Khadija Haq -- Nuclearism and its insecurities / David Kriger -- Cultural insecurities and global class formation / Jonathan Friedman -- English language hegemony and cultural security / Yukio Tsuda -- Human security through international citizenship / Stuart Rees and Lynda-ann Blanchard -- Looking forward / Majid Tehranian.

"This is volume one of a three-volume series arising from a collaborative international project on Human Security and Global Governance. It is based on the work of a number of peace and policy institutes and on the work of an international range of scholars, policymakers and community leaders. This volume focuses on the problems of security in the Asia-Pacific regions and concentrates on, for example, the economic diversity between the richest and poorest countries in the World, the old-style communist dictatorships and new-style market communism, democratic capitalism, authoritarian capitalism and cultural diversity."--Publisher description.

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