Freedom Vs Necessity in International Relations: Human-Centred Approaches to Security and Development

by David Chandler

The last two decades have seen the remarkable rise to dominance of human-centred understandings of the world. Indeed, it is now rare to read any analysis of insecurity, conflict or development which does not discuss the need to 'empower' or 'capacity-build' local individuals or communities.

In this path-breaking book, Chandler presents a radical challenge to such approaches, arguing that the solutions to the world's problems are now not...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1780324839
• ISBN13: 9781780324838
• Release Date: March 2013
• Publisher: Zed Books
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.4"