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Fragile States and Insecure People?: Violence, Security, and Statehood in the Twenty-First Century (Governance, Security and Development)
Louise Andersen (Ed.)
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Description for Fragile States and Insecure People?: Violence, Security, and Statehood in the Twenty-First Century (Governance, Security and Development)
Hardcover. Editor(s): Andersen, Louise; Moller, Bjorn; Stepputat, Finn. Series: Governance, Security and Development. Num Pages: 269 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JMC; JWK; JWLP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 470.
This book provides a unique account of the pursuit of security at the edge of the global order. It sheds light on reform of state police and armed forces, and analyses the alternative security structures that emerge in the absence of the state. This book remains open-minded as to which 'model' for security is better.
This book provides a unique account of the pursuit of security at the edge of the global order. It sheds light on reform of state police and armed forces, and analyses the alternative security structures that emerge in the absence of the state. This book remains open-minded as to which 'model' for security is better.
Product Details
Publisher
AIAA
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Series
Governance, Security and Development
Condition
New
Weight
470g
Number of Pages
260
Place of Publication
Gordonsville, United States
ISBN
9781403983824
SKU
V9781403983824
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99-15
About Louise Andersen (Ed.)
LOUISE ANDERSEN is currently a PhD candidate at the Institute for Political Science, Copenhagen University, Denmark. At the time of editing this volume she was a visiting scholar at the Danish Institute for International Studies on secondment from the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, where she has served since completing Master in Political Science in 1996. Her research focuses on ... Read more
Reviews for Fragile States and Insecure People?: Violence, Security, and Statehood in the Twenty-First Century (Governance, Security and Development)
'This important book explores security needs in areas where the formal state has little or no presence and hence where our normative ontology of the sovereign, territorial state does not apply. It doing so, it challenges conventional notions of peace-building, state-building and the assumptions that underpin most of our approaches to development and security. This is an overdue debate that ... Read more