Globalization and Environmental Challenges: Reconceptualizing Security in the 21st Century

Front Matter....Pages I-24
Front Matter....Pages 25-25
Introduction: Globalization and Environmental Challenges: Reconceptualizing Security in the 21 st Century....Pages 27-43
Security as Attributes of Social Systems....Pages 45-62
Front Matter....Pages 63-63
Conceptual Quartet: Security and its Linkages with Peace, Development, and Environment....Pages 65-98
Peace and Security: Two Evolving Concepts and Their Changing Relationship....Pages 99-111
Peace and Environment: Towards a Sustainable Peace as Seen From the South....Pages 113-126
Underdevelopment and Human Insecurity: Overcoming Systemic, Natural, and Policy Risk....Pages 127-139
Emergent Sustainability: The Concept of Sustainable Development in a Complex World....Pages 141-149
Development and Security: Genealogy and Typology of an Evolving International Policy Area....Pages 151-163
Security and Environment Linkages Revisited....Pages 165-172
Front Matter....Pages 173-174
Oriental, European, and Indigenous Thinking on Peace in Latin America....Pages 175-193
Security in Hinduism and Buddhism....Pages 195-202
Security in Chinese, Korean, and Japanese Philosophy and Ethics....Pages 203-220
Security in Confucian Thought: Case of Korea....Pages 221-234
Security in Japanese History, Philosophy and Ethics: Impact on Contemporary Security Policy....Pages 235-242
Thinking on Security in Hinduism: Contemporary Political Philosophy and Ethics in India....Pages 243-251
Human Security in Jewish Philosophy and Ethics....Pages 253-261
From Homer to Hobbes and Beyond — Aspects of’ security’ in the European Tradition....Pages 263-277
Security Conceptualization in Arab Philosophy and Ethics and Muslim Perspectives....Pages 279-288
Security in African Philosophy and Historical Ideas....Pages 289-297
Security in Latin American Philosophy, Ethics, and History of Ideas....Pages 299-310
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The Brazilian View on the Conceptualization of Security: Philosophical, Ethical and Cultural Contexts and Issues....Pages 311-320
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Securitization of Space and Referent Objects....Pages 323-344
Structural Setting for Global Environmental Politics in a Hierarchic International System: A Geopolitical View....Pages 345-353
Global Environmental Change and Human Security....Pages 355-361
Globalization and Security: The US ‘Imperial Presidency’: Global Impacts in Iraq and Mexico....Pages 363-378
Globalization from Below: Social Movements and Altermundism — Reconceptualizing Security from a Latin American Perspective....Pages 379-402
Security Regionalism in Theory and Practice....Pages 403-412
Identity-based Security Threats in a Globalized World: Focus on Islam....Pages 413-420
Security and Sovereignty....Pages 421-430
Subordinate, Subsumed and Subversive: Sub-national Actors as Referents of Security....Pages 431-437
Non-state Based Terrorism and Security....Pages 439-447
Agents of Insecurity in the Andes: Transregional Crime and Strategic Relations....Pages 449-456
Re-conceptualizing Security Research with Individual Level Data....Pages 457-464
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Quest for International Security: Benefits of Justice versus the Trappings of Paranoia....Pages 467-474
Security in International Law Since 1990....Pages 475-485
Human Security from the Standpoint of an Economist....Pages 487-493
The Concept of Security in International Relations....Pages 495-502
Security in Peace Research and Security Studies....Pages 503-525
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Security: The State (of) Being Free From Danger?....Pages 529-536
From a Security towards a Survival Dilemma....Pages 537-552
Front Matter....Pages 527-527
The Changing Agenda of Military Security....Pages 553-560
Political Security, an Uncertain Concept with Expanding Concerns....Pages 561-568
Economic Security....Pages 569-580
The Changing Agenda of Societal Security....Pages 581-593
Environmental Security Deconstructed....Pages 595-602
Front Matter....Pages 603-604
Human Security and the UN Security Council....Pages 605-619
Evolution of the United Nations Security Concept: Role of the High-Level Panel on Threats, Challenges, and Change....Pages 621-636
Security, Development and UN Coordination....Pages 637-642
Reconceptualization of Security in the CSCE and OSCE....Pages 643-650
The Comprehensive Security Concept of the European Union....Pages 651-657
Reconceptualization of External Security in the European Union since 1990....Pages 659-676
Democracy and European Justice and Home Affairs Policies from the Cold War to September 11....Pages 677-694
From a European Security Community to a Secure European Community Tracing the New Security Identity of the EU....Pages 695-704
EU Policy Coherence on Security and Development A New Agenda for Research and Policy-making....Pages 705-712
From Obsession to Oblivion: Reconceptualization of Security in NATO since 1990....Pages 713-723
NATO’s Role in the Mediterranean and Broader Middle East Region....Pages 725-732
German Action Plan: Civilian Crisis Prevention, Conflict Resolution and Peace Consolidation — A Reconceptualization of Security....Pages 733-742
Interfaces between Development and Security: Converging the Role of Development Policy and Security Policy?....Pages 743-752
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European Security in the 21 st Century: An Institutional Perspective....Pages 755-762
Regionalization of Great Power Security — Near Abroad, Broader Middle East, and European Neighbourhood....Pages 763-774
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A Regional Security Perspective From and For the Arab World....Pages 775-789
ECOWAS and Regional Security Challenges....Pages 791-800
A Regional Security Perspective from and for the Horn of Africa....Pages 801-810
Regional Security in Southern Africa Development Community: Perspectives on Security Challenges....Pages 811-818
The Security Problematique in South Asia: Alternative Conceptualizations....Pages 819-828
Security Debates in East Asia since the End of the Cold War....Pages 829-838
China and the New International Security Agenda....Pages 839-854
Security in the New Millennium: A Debate in the South Pacific on Peace and Security: Alternative Formulations in the Post Cold War Era....Pages 855-865
Security on the American Continent: Challenges, Perceptions, and Concepts....Pages 867-878
Towards an Ethical Framework for Security....Pages 879-886
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Prediction in Security Theory and Policy....Pages 889-900
Climate Change and Security in the 21 st Century....Pages 901-913
Global Security: Learning from Possible Futures....Pages 915-927
Role of Prediction in Sustainable Development and Disaster Management....Pages 929-938
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Reconceptualizing Security in the 21 st Century: Conclusions for Research and Policy-making....Pages 941-954
Back Matter....Pages 955-1147