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| Title | : | Human Security and the UN: A Critical History (United Nations Intellectual History Project Series) |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.65 (889 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 025321839X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 368 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-09-09 |
| Language | : | English |
Leona Reyna said regular new book.. I had to buy this for one of my college classes. Came quickly, no marks on the book, it appeared to be brand new.
The state’s ability to provide security for its citizens came under heavy strain in the 20th century as a result of technological, strategic, and ideological innovations. MacFarlane and Khong highlight the UN’s work in promoting human security ideas since the 1940s, giving special emphasis to its role in extending the notion of security to include development, economic, environmental, and other issues in the 1990s.. By the end of World War II, efforts to reclaim the security rights of individuals gathered pace, as seen in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and a host of United Nations covenants and conventions. From Westphalia through the 19th century, the state’s claim to be the object of security was sustainable because it offered its subjects some measure of protection. How did the individual human being become the focus of the contemporary discourse on security? What was the role of the United Nations in "securing" the individual? What are the payoffs and costs of this extension of the concept? Neil MacFarlane and Yuen Foong Khong tackle these questions by analyzing historical and
Anne’s College.Yuen Foong Khong is John G. S. Pearson Professor of International Relations and Head of the Department of Politics and International Relations at Oxford University and Professional Fellow at St. Winant University Lecturer in American Foreign Policy and Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford University.. Neil MacFarlane is Lester B
The latter part of the book is dedicated to a discussion of two dimensions of human security and the UN: human development and protection. "There are many hard questions related to human security, and MacFarlane and Khong cannot answer them all. P. Graduate students through practitioners. Appropriately, one chapter provides a critique of UN actions in the human security area. With this background, the authors trace how the idea of human security became embedded in the UN through such issues as human rights, the laws of war, and refugees, among others. But they have done much in this must-read tour de force to elevate human security to the most rigorous analysis for the purpose of revamping international public policy. As such, policy makers, analysts, and academics alike will find this book of exceptional value." Human Rights & Human Welfare"This is one of at least 14 pro
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