Global Crisis and Insecurity

Paul James is Professor of Globalization and Cultural Diversity in the Institute for Culture and Society at Western Sydney University. He was previously Scientific Advisor to the Mayor of Berlin and Director of the United Nations Global Compact Cities Programme. Paul's previous publications include Globalization Matters (with Manfred Steger, 2019) and Globalism, Nationalism, Tribalism (2006).

• Preface; Part I. The Dark Matter of Our Time: 1. The future of humanity does not look good; 2. Redefining basic concepts; Part II. Confronting Global Contradictions: 3. The existential unsettling of security; 4. Descending into postcolonial violence; 5. Disrupting the hopes of reconciliation; 6. Dehumanizing refugees; 7. Abstracting embodiment; Part III. Struggling for Positive Human Development: 8. The ontological weight of human security: 9. Reconsidering humanitarian intervention; 10. Creating capacities for human development; 11. Bringing Cosmopolitanism down to earth; 12. Moving towards a manifesto; Appendix: a note on method; Glossary for engaged practice; References.

'Global Crisis and Insecurity is the long-awaited third volume in Paul James' triptych on the theory of abstract community and, in many ways, it is the most challenging, disturbing, and rewarding of the three. It is at once a treatise on the human condition, replete with all the dark shades conjured by the Book of Corinthians, by Arendt and by Bergman, and yet, crisis motif acknowledged, it is not a jeremiad. Indeed, the author is at pains to advocate alternative ways of thinking and practising in an unsettled world.' Barrie Axford, Author of Populism Versus the New Globalization