1st Edition
Rethinking Insecurity, War and Violence Beyond Savage Globalization?
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.
PART I: RECONCEPTUALIZING INSECURITY
Introduction: Part One
1. Debating Insecurity in a Globalizing World: An Introduction
Damian Grenfell and Paul James
2. Globalizing Empire, Nationalism and Violence
Paul James and Tom Nairn
3. Globalization, Civil Society and Human Security
Mary Kaldor (to be confirmed)
4. Global Capitalism and the Politics of Risk
James Goodman
PART II: GLOBALIZING INSECURITY
Introduction: Part Two
5. The Spectacle of Terror: Postmodern Wars and the Therapeutic Security Paradigm
Michael Humphrey
6. The Effect of Mediation? Embodied Sympathy and Control in the Global War on Terror
Kirsty Best
7. The Recursion of Postcolonialism and Challenges to Mainstream International Relations
Phillip Darby
8. The Consequences of Ecological Risk and Broadening the Field of Security Studies
Robyn Eckersley
PART III: GLOBALIZING REGIONAL CONFLICTS
Introduction: Part Three
9. Zones of Conflict and the Global War on Terror
Martin Griffiths
10. Political Regimes and the War on Terror in South East Asia
Garry Rodan
11. Insecurity, Risk, Identity and the War in Kosovo
John Tulloch
12. Globalization and the Conflict in Israel/Palestine
Jamal Nassar (to be confirmed)
PART IV: RECONCILING DIFFERENCE IN A GLOBALIZING WORLD
Introduction: Part Four
13. Resilience: Conditions for Reconstruction in Peripheral Communities
John Handmer
14. Reconstruction: Negotiating Governance after Major Conflict
Richard Caplan (to be confirmed)
15. Recovery: Taming the Rwa Bhineda after the Bali Bombings
Jeff Lewis and Belinda Lewis
16. Reconciliation: Violence and Gender in East Timor
Damian Grenfell
Biography
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).
