Globalization and Environmental Challenges - Reconceptualizing Security in the 21st Century

“Globalization and Environmental Challenges” pose new security dangers and concerns. In this book 92 authors assess the global reconceptualization of security triggered by the end of the Cold War, globalization and global environmental change in the early 21st century. 75 chapters address the theoretical, philosophical, ethical and religious and spatial context of security; discuss the relationship between security, peace, development and environment; review the reconceptualization of security in philosophy, international law, economics and political science and for the political, military, economic, social and environmental security dimension and the adaptation of the institutional security concepts of the UN, EU and NATO; analyze the reconceptualization of regional security and draw conclusions for future research and action.

Editor:

Hans-Günter Brauch
Free University of Berlin
UNU-EHS Bonn
Germany

Contributors:

Hans Günter Brauch
Free University of Berlin
UNU-EHS Bonn
Germany

Ursula Oswald Spring
UNAM/CRIM
Cuernavaca
Morelos, Mexico UNU-EHS Bonn, Germany

Pal Dunay
Geneva Centre for Security Policy
Geneva
Switzerland

Amb. Theodor Winkler
Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF)
Switzerland

Vicken Cheterian
CIMERA consultancy
Geneva
Switzerland

Patricia Lewis
UNIDIR

Otto Simonett
UNEP
ENVSEC

Madhavi Malalgoda Ariyabandu
UN/ISDR

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