The New Global Insecurity : How Terrorism, Environmental Collapse, Economic Inequalities, and Resource Shortages Are Changing Our World

Moghaddam, Fathali M.

ISBN 10: 0313365075 / ISBN 13: 9780313365072

Published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA, 2010

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The New Global Insecurity : How Terrorism, Environmental Collapse, Economic Inequalities, and Resource Shortages Are Changing Our World
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0313365075
• ISBN 13: 9780313365072
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 0th Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Weight: 1.063 pounds

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Synopsis

A noted conflict expert shows how accelerating globalization is causing dangerous global insecurity that must be met by new security models and policies.

The New Global Insecurity: How Terrorism, Environmental Collapse, Economic Inequalities, and Resource Shortages Are Changing Our World explores insecurity arising out of accelerating globalization. In this unique and forward-thinking work, psychologist Fathali M. Moghaddam, director of the Conflict Studies Program at Georgetown University, explains how and why worldwide insecurity is rising and what steps we must take to quell or reverse that insecurity to make the future of the world more peaceful.

The book first analyzes the elements and roots of global insecurity, discussing it in relation to terrorism, torture, economic instability, threatened identity, and religious fundamentalism. It then puts forward a new model for understanding security, wherein "soft security capital" serves as the enabling condition for "hard security capital." Finally, the current policies for managing diversity, "multiculturalism" and "assimilation" are both rejected in favor of an exciting new policy―"omniculturalism". Drawing on his years of study and expertise, Moghaddam likewise proposes a new policy for better managing intergroup relations in an insecure age.

About the Author

Fathali M. Moghaddam is an Iranian-born, British-educated psychologist who worked for the United Nations and McGill University before joining Georgetown University, where he is now director of the Conflict Studies Program.