Global Security in a Changing World
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Series Editor: Professor Nana K. Poku, John Ferguson Professor,
Department of Peace Studies, University of Bradford, UK
Globalisation is changing the world dramatically, and a very
public debate is taking place about the form, extent and
significance of these changes. At the centre of this debate lie
conflicting claims about the forces and processes shaping security.
As a result, notions of inequality, poverty and the cultural realm
of identity politics have all surfaced along side terrorism,
environmental changes and bio-medical weapons as essential features
of the contemporary global political landscape. In this sense, the
debate on globalisation calls for a fundamental shift from a status
quo political reality to one that dislodges states as the primary
referent, and instead sees states as a means and not the end to
various security issues, ranging from individual security to
international terrorism. More importantly, centred at the cognitive
stage of thought, it is also a move towards conceiving the concept
of insecurity in terms of change.
The series attempts to address this imbalance by encouraging a
robust and multi-disciplinary assessment of the asymmetrical nature
of globalisation. Scholarship is sought from areas such as: global
governance, poverty and insecurity, development, civil society,
religion, terrorism and globalisation.