EU Global Strategy and Human Security: Rethinking Approaches to Conflict

The EU's Global Strategy is examined in this volume in light of human security approaches to conflict. It emphasizes the social conditions that give rise to contemporary conflicts, where armed groups exploit sectarian and fundamentalist sentiments to construct a predatory economy. The book discusses the significance of the EU Global Strategy for re-articulating EU conflict prevention, crisis management, peacebuilding, and development policies. It also addresses key issues facing EU security, such as the conflicts in Ukraine, Libya, and Syria, border security, cyber-security, and the role of the private security sector. The book proposes a second-generation human security approach to conflicts as an alternative to geopolitics or the 'War on Terror,' taking forward the principles of human security and adapting them to 21st-century realities.

\n Format: Hardback
\n Length: 246 pages
\n Publication date: 17 April 2018
\n Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
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The European Union's (EU) Global Strategy in relation to human security approaches to conflict is the subject of thorough examination in this volume. Contemporary conflicts are best understood as a social condition in which armed groups mobilize sectarian and fundamentalist sentiments and construct a predatory economy through which they enrich themselves at the expense of ordinary citizens. This volume makes a timely contribution to ongoing debates over the EU's role on the global stage and its contribution to peace and security, particularly in light of the adoption of the EU Global Strategy. It delves into the significance of the Strategic Review and the Global Strategy in re-articulating EU conflict prevention, crisis management, peacebuilding, and development policies over the next few years. The book also addresses key issues facing EU security in the 21st century, including conflicts in Ukraine, Libya, and Syria, border security, cyber-security, and the role of the private security sector.

Concluding the volume, the author proposes that the EU adopts a second-generation human security approach to conflicts, as an alternative to geopolitics or the 'War on Terror.' This approach seeks to take forward the principles of human security and adapt them to the realities of the 21st century. The book will appeal to students of human security, European foreign and security policy, peace and conflict studies, global governance, and International Relations (IR) in general.

\n Weight: 381g\n
Dimension: 210 x 150 x 22 (mm)\n
ISBN-13: 9781138098961\n \n