This book discusses Human Security from a theoretical perspective. It builds theories in order to understand a phenomenon in a structured and well-ordered way. It sheds light on the conditions of the economy, food, health, community, environmental and political security in Asian states. It explores the idea of human security to understand the issues jeopardizing an individual’s security in the Asian continent and suggests policies to overcome these problems. This book argues that the nature of the government and the constitution are equally essential in ensuring the human security of a country. Some countries in Asia are not only economically vulnerable but also politically disrupted. The issues of hunger, poverty, illiteracy, militancy, terrorism, and ethnoreligious conflicts have posed threats to human security. The pandemic COVID-19 has brought a great humanitarian crisis. The role of the Asian states in combatting COVID-19 and protecting public health is highlightedin this book. With a multidimensional outlook this edited volume attempts to delineate an interdisciplinary discourse of human security in an Asian context.
Debasish Nandy (Ph.D.) is an Associate Professor and Head of, the Department of Political Science at Kazi Nazrul University, Asansol, West Bengal, India. Dr. Nandy is the Coordinator of the Centre for Studies of South and South-East Asian Societies at the same university. Dr. Nandy was the Visiting Faculty in the Department of Foreign Area Studies at Tajik National University, Tajikistan in 2019. Dr Nandy was the Visiting Faculty at the Department of Japanese Studies, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh in 2022. He was the Visiting Faculty at Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences, Frankfurt, Germany in 2023. Dr Nandy has edited 12 books and is the author of 5 books. He has published 54 research articles in various reputed journals and contributed 63 book chapters in edited volumes. His research areas are India’s Foreign Policy, Security Studies, Peace Studies, Refugees and Migration, South Asian Politics and Environment.
Debtanu Majee (Ph.D.) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Bidhan Chandra College, Rishra, Hooghly, West Bengal, India, and a Ph.D. research scholar in the Department of Political Science, Kazi Nazrul University, West Bengal, India. Dr Majee is also a Guest Faculty member in the Department of Political Science, Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata, India. His research interest includes Human Security in South Asia.
