Peter Wilkin

Recent debates surrounding human security have focused on the satisfaction of human needs as the vital goal for global development. Peter Wilkin highlights the limitations of this view and argues that unless we incorporate an account of human autonomy into human security then the concept is flawed. He reveals how human security is a concern with social relations that connect people in local, national and global networks of power, structured through capitalism and hierarchical inter-state systems. Autonomy, as an aspect of human security, depends upon the ability of citizens to gain information about the processes that shape their lives. In this respect autonomy and communication are inherently linked and are prerequisites for the establishment of meaningful democratic systems.

An Introduction

The Political Economy of Global Communication

Caroline Thomas

Explores issues surrounding the globalization of world politics. Drawing on the African experience, the book establishes the context of the security debate, sets out the relationship between globalization and security, and explores the challenges posed to the realization of security.

Globalization, Human Security, and the African Experience

The Yellow Vest protest that were ignited in France in 2018 have been a radical challenge to the extension of the market into all areas of social life. The book examines the radical democratic and egalitarian ideas generated by the movement and defends it from its many critics.

The Gilets Jaunes and the Battle for the Future of France

Fear of a Yellow Vest Planet

This volume brings together a group of authors who share a common concern with the effects of globalization on the South. Included among these effects is the accelerating erosion of the social, economic and political significance of the territorial distinction on which the terms South and North are founded. The authors' aim is explicit: to offer a unique perspective on globalization which places the transformation of the South and the renewed global organization of inequality at the heart of our understanding of the global order.

Peter Wilkin

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