
Human Security as Statecraft
Structural Conditions, Articulations and Unintended Consequences
Nik Hynek(Author)
Routledge (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 9. February 2012
Book
Hardback
256 pages
978-0-415-69372-1 (ISBN)
Description
This book critically investigates the discourses and practices of human security and aims to delve below the stereotypical imageries representing them.
Drawing on Foucault and Deleuze, the author approaches human security from a new perspective, with the aim of ascertaining what has been behind and underneath a certain spatio-temporal articulation of human security, and with what political implications and consequences. Each human security assemblage is composed of messy discourses and practices which are loosely related and sometimes even disconnected. This book examines the Canadian and Japanese articulations of human security and establishes the kinds of structural terrains have enabled, shaped, or blocked the unfolding of these versions of human security. The pivotal contention of the book is that Canadian and Japanese articulations of human security have been different because they have grown from completely different domestic economies of power governing the relationship between the state apparatus and the non-profit and voluntary sector. While the Canadian human security assemblage has been shaped by transformations in the country's advanced liberal model of government, the Japanese has been shaped by the continuities of Japan's bureaucratic authoritarianism. A novel approach is employed for the related process-tracing: a general series linking structural conditions with actual articulations of the human security projects, and their further development, including analysis of their unintended consequences.
This book will be of much interest to students of Critical Security Studies, human security, global governance, foreign policy and IR/Security studies.
Drawing on Foucault and Deleuze, the author approaches human security from a new perspective, with the aim of ascertaining what has been behind and underneath a certain spatio-temporal articulation of human security, and with what political implications and consequences. Each human security assemblage is composed of messy discourses and practices which are loosely related and sometimes even disconnected. This book examines the Canadian and Japanese articulations of human security and establishes the kinds of structural terrains have enabled, shaped, or blocked the unfolding of these versions of human security. The pivotal contention of the book is that Canadian and Japanese articulations of human security have been different because they have grown from completely different domestic economies of power governing the relationship between the state apparatus and the non-profit and voluntary sector. While the Canadian human security assemblage has been shaped by transformations in the country's advanced liberal model of government, the Japanese has been shaped by the continuities of Japan's bureaucratic authoritarianism. A novel approach is employed for the related process-tracing: a general series linking structural conditions with actual articulations of the human security projects, and their further development, including analysis of their unintended consequences.
This book will be of much interest to students of Critical Security Studies, human security, global governance, foreign policy and IR/Security studies.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
5 s/w Tabellen, 4 s/w Zeichnungen
5 Tables, black and white; 4 Line drawings, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Weight
630 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-415-69372-1 (9780415693721)
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Structural Conditions, Articulations and Unintended Consequences
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Structural Conditions, Articulations and Unintended Consequences
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Human Security as Statecraft
Structural Conditions, Articulations and Unintended Consequences
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Person
Nikola Hynek is Research Leader of the Centre for International Security at the Institute of International Relations (IIR) in Prague, and Lecturer at Charles University in Prague.
Content
Introduction 1. Conceptual Framework 2. Imageries of Human Security 3. Canadian Conditions of Possibility 4. The Landmine Case as a Rhizomatic Assemblage 5. Hybridised Human Security Assemblage 6. Structural Conditions for Japanese Continuity 7. Japanese Human Security as Continuing Politics of Convergence 8. Domopolitical Assemblage of Japanese Human Security. Conclusions