New Global Insecurity, The: How Terrorism, Environmental Collapse, Economic Inequalities, And Resource Shortages Are Changing Our World (Praeger Security International) - Softcover

Moghaddam, Fathali M.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1440836248 ISBN 13: 9781440836244

Publisher: Praeger, 2010

Synopsis

A noted conflict expert shows how accelerating globalization is causing dangerous global insecurity that must be met by new security models and policies.
The New Global Insecurity: How Terrorism, Environmental Collapse, Economic Inequalities, and Resource Shortages Are Changing Our World explores insecurity arising out of accelerating globalization. In this unique and forward-thinking work, psychologist Fathali M. Moghaddam, director of the Conflict Studies Program at Georgetown University, explains how and why worldwide insecurity is rising and what steps we must take to quell or reverse that insecurity to make the future of the world more peaceful.

The book first analyzes the elements and roots of global insecurity, discussing it in relation to terrorism, torture, economic instability, threatened identity, and religious fundamentalism. It then puts forward a new model for understanding security, wherein soft security capital" serves as the enabling condition for "hard security capital." Finally, the current policies for managing diversity, "multiculturalism" and "assimilation" are both rejected in favor of an exciting new policy ― "omniculturalism". Drawing on his years of study and expertise, Moghaddam likewise proposes a new policy for better managing intergroup relations in an insecure age."

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About the Author

Fathali M. Moghaddam is an Iranian-born, British-educated psychologist who worked for the United Nations and McGill University before joining Georgetown University, where he is now director of the Conflict Studies Program.

Edition details

• Publisher: Praeger
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1440836248
• ISBN 13: 9781440836244
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 212