Rethinking Insecurity War And Violence

The book "Rethinking Insecurity, War and Violence: Beyond Savage Globalization?" is a collection of essays that challenges mainstream security paradigms. It aims to provide a comprehensive analysis of the long-term sources of political, military, and cultural insecurity at both local and global levels. The book argues that the traditional focus on finding immediate causes and quick responses to violence is insufficient and instead offers a deeper understanding of the root causes of conflict. The book also critiques the common belief that insecurity is caused by a return to traditional and tribal identities, and instead presents a more complex view of global insecurity. It will be of interest to students and scholars in international relations, security studies, gender studies, and globalization studies.

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.