Rethinking Insecurity, War and Violence: Beyond Savage Globalization?: 15 (Rethinking Globalizations) - Softcover

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ISBN 10: 0415432278 ISBN 13: 9780415432276
Publisher: Routledge, 2008

Synopsis

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 understanding the causes of conflict and violence in the world today, one that adds a different dimension to the dominant focus on finding proximate causes and making quick responses

Too often the arenas of violence have been represented as if they have been triggered by reassertions of traditional and tribal forms of identity, primordial and irrational assertions of politics. Such ideas about the sources of insecurity have become entrenched in a wide variety of media sources, and have framed both government policies and academic arguments. Rather than treating the sources of insecurity as a retreat from modernity, this book complicates the patterns of global insecurity to a degree that takes the debates simply beyond assumptions that we are witnessing a savage return to a bloody and tribalized world.

It will be of particular interest to students and scholars of international relations, security studies, gender studies and globalization studies.

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About the Author

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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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2008
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0415432278
ISBN 13 
9780415432276
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
256
Editor
Grenfell Damian, James Paul

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