Human security as statecraft : structural conditions, articulations and unintended consequences

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Title:

Author:

Hynek, Nik.

ISBN:

9780415693721

9780415723886

9780203127148

Personal Author:

Hynek, Nik.

Publication Information:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2012.

Physical Description:

xiv, 241 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Series:

Routledge critical security studies series ; [8]

Routledge critical security studies series; 8.

Contents:

Note continued: External militarisation and sovereign biopolitics -- Afghan neutralisation and counter-terrorism domestication -- Neo-liberalised 'humanitarianism' and the proliferation of risk management -- 6. Structural conditions for Japanese continuity -- Domestic orthodoxies as conditions for fundamental continuity -- Foreign- and security-policy orthodoxies as moulding conditions -- Developments in the domestic economy of power -- Neo-mercantile developmentalist governmentality as foreign and security policy -- 7. Japanese human security as a continuing politics of convergence -- 'Comprehensive national security' as the master convergence -- Bureaucratic construction of the Japanese Human Security Programme -- From programme to assemblage: Japanese appropriation of human security through the United Nations -- 8. Domopolitical assemblage of Japanese human security -- Convergence and domopolitics as complementary diagrams of power.

Note continued: Delivering post-conflict peace: human security replaces the military war machine -- Producing Human (in)security: rebuilding their homes, denying their entrance -- Domopolitical administration of NGOs: from Kobe to Afghanistan and beyond.

Subject Term:

Security, International.

International relations.

Human security.

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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.