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Intro -- Table of Contents -- Dedication -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Tables and Figure -- Tables -- Figure -- Introduction: Looking Beyond the Religion as Good or Bad Dichotomy -- 1: Theorizing Religion and International Security -- Secular World Order -- Habermas and the Post Secular -- Main Theoretical Paradigms -- Conclusion -- 2: Sacred Violence and Clashing Civilizations -- Girard, Mimesis, Scapegoats and Sacred Violence -- Interfaith Conflict -- Intrafaith Conflict -- Conclusion -- 3: Just War and Jihad -- Just-War Theory -- Jihad -- 'Religious' Terrorism -- Conclusion -- 4: Blessed are the Peacemakers -- Peace in the Scriptures -- Peacemakers -- Religious Peacemaking -- Conclusion -- 5: Faith-Based Initiatives and International Security -- Faith-Based Diplomacy -- Military Chaplains -- Faith-Based Humanitarian Assistance -- Conclusion -- 6: Suffering and Dying in the Name of God -- Human Security -- Government Harassment and Social Hostility -- Strengthening Human Security for Religious Actors -- Governance, Religion and Human Security -- Charter for Compassion -- Conclusion -- Conclusion: Religions of Peace and War? A Matter of Choice -- Appendix -- Article 1 -- Article 2 -- Article 3 -- Article 4 -- Article 5 -- Article 6 -- Article 7 -- Article 8 -- References -- Index -- End User License Agreement

What does it mean to be secure? In the global news, we hear stories daily about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, about domestic-level conflicts around the world, about the challenges of cybersecurity and social security. This broad list highlights the fact that security is an idea with multiple meanings, but do we all experience security issues in the same way? In this book, Nicole Detraz explores the broad terrain of security studies through a gender lens. Assumptions about masculinity and femininity play important roles in how we understand and react to security threats. By examining issues of militarization, peacekeeping, terrorism, human security, and environmental security, the book considers how the gender-security nexus pushes us to ask different questions and broaden our sphere of analysis. Including gender in our analysis of security challenges the primacy of some traditional security concepts and shifts the focus to be more inclusive. Without a full understanding of the vulnerabilities and threats associated with security, we may miss opportunities to address pressing global problems. Our society often expects men and women to play different roles, and this is no less true in the realm of security. This book demonstrates that security debates exhibit gendered understandings of key concepts, and whilst these gendered assumptions may benefit specific people, they are often detrimental to others, particularly in the key realm of policy-making.

"International Security in Latin America" published on by Oxford University Press.

Benutzerkommentar

The Global War on Terrorism has made policy analysts the world over re-think the implications of corruption for the peaceful existence of states. Corruption has become the enabler by which groups who commit conspiracies on a global scale may threaten international security with relative impunity. Adapted from the source document.