Positive Security: Collective Life in an Uncertain World

ISBN-13: 9780415482790 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 190 str.

Roe Paul

Opis

This book explores current thinking about positive security and seeks to suggest a reformulated positive security concept, and to evaluate the efficacy of such a concept in terms of foreign and security policy. Proceeding from a critical evaluation of McSweeney s positive security approach, the author assesses the potential for reformulating positive security in other existing theoretical approaches: the Copenhagen School, the Welsh School, and largely Galtungian-defined Peace Studies and finally proposes a formulation of positive security defined as the ability of orders (security referent objects) to achieve/maintain just values, and secondly tackle the highly contentious issue of the use of force in the securing of these values. In equating Positive Security with the achievement/maintenance of just values, the book, although locating itself within a tradition that is committed to ways of promoting equitable and cooperative relations between humans and human communities, will also seek to pose contentious questions of violent- as well as non-violent transformations. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of international relations, critical security and peace studies."

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Why Positive Security?, 2. Positive Security: Encounters as a Multiactor Security Approach, 3. Human Security, Gender Security, and Positive Security: Sharing Perspectives from the North, 4. Encounters and Positive Security: Radical Human Security as a Research Agenda, 5. Civilian Agency, Identity, and the Power to Define Security, 6. Power and Positive Security: Emancipatory Security through Arendt and Butler, 7. Social Orders and Positive Security: Greece–Turkey Relations as a Failed Pursuit of Positive Security, 8. Positive, Multiactor Security and the Comprehensive Approach, 9. Conclusion: Looking Forward to Positive Security