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Book Summary
For the last two decades nearly all analysis of insecurity, conflict or
development has stressed the need to "empower" or "capacity-build" local
individuals or communities. This ground-breaking book presents a radical
challenge to such approaches, arguing that solutions to the world's problems are
not understood within external structures of economic, political and social
relations, but instead with individuals and groups - often the most marginal and
powerless. This has gone hand-in-hand with a shift from state-based to
society-based understandings of the world. Chandler provocatively argues that
this has limited available transformative possibilities, and to achieve real
change - both at a local and a global level - requires
ISBN-13
9781780324838
Language
English
Binding
Paper Back
Publisher
Zed Books
Publishing Date
2013-03-01
Total Pages
224
Freedom vs Necessity in International Relations: Human-Centred Approaches to Security and Development
For the last two decades nearly all analysis of insecurity, conflict or
development has stressed the need to "empower" or "capacity-build" local
individuals or communities. This ground-breaking book presents a radical
challenge to such approaches, arguing that solutions to the world's problems are
not understood within external structures of economic, political and social
relations, but instead with individuals and groups - often the most marginal and
powerless. This has gone hand-in-hand with a shift from state-based to
society-based understandings of the world. Chandler provocatively argues that
this has limited available transformative possibilities, and to achieve real
change - both at a local and a global level - requires