Critical Perspectives on Human Security

David Chandler is Professor of International Relations at the University of Westminster. He is author of several books and edits the Journal of Statebuilding and Intervention.Nik Hynek is Research Fellow at the Institute of International Relations in Prague and Lecturer at Charles University and Metropolitan University. Previously, he conducted research at the Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies (SIWPS) at Columbia University and at the BIOS Institute of the LSE. He has widely published on international security and theories of IR.

• 1. Introduction David Chandler and Nik Hynek Part 1: Human Security and Emancipation 2. ‘We the Peoples’: Contending Discourses of Security in Human Rights Theory and Practice Tim Dunne and Nicholas J. Wheeler 3. Development of the Human Security Field: A Critical Examination David Bosold 4. Has Human Security Had Its Day? Neil Cooper, Mandy Turner and Michael Pugh 5. Human Security, Biopoverty and the Possibility for Emancipation David Roberts 6. Emancipatory Forms of Human Security and Liberal Peacebuilding Oliver P. Richmond 7. Towards a Critical Security Paradigm? Reconceptualizing the ‘Vital Core’ of Human Security Giorgio Shani 8. The Siren Song of Human Security Ryerson Christie 9. The Limits to Emancipation in the Human Security Framework Tara McCormack Part 2: Human Security and Regimes of Power 10. Human Security and the Securing of Human Life: Tracing Global Sovereign and Biopolitical Rule Marc G. Doucet and Miguel de Larrinaga 11. Rethinking Human Security: Economy, Governmentality and Hybridization of Individuals 12. Human Security: Sovereignty, Citizenship, Disorder Kyle Grayson 13. (Bio)Human Security Julian Reid 14. Inhuman Security Mark Neocleous 15. Living not Human: The Biopolitics of Security Mick Dillon 16. Human Security and the Globalization of the Political David Chandler. Conclusion