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How Terrorism, Environmental Collapse, Economic Inequalities, and Resource Shortages Are Changing Our World
Praeger Security International
February 2010
On Sale: January 22, 2010
199 pages
ISBN: 0313365075
EAN: 9780313365072
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
The New Global Insecurity: How Terrorism, Environmental Collapse, Economic Inequalities, and Resource Shortages Are Changing Our World explores insecurity arising out of accelerating globalization. In this unique and forward-thinking work, psychologist Fathali M. Moghaddam, director of the Conflict Studies Program at Georgetown University, explains how and why worldwide insecurity is rising and what steps we must take to quell or reverse that insecurity to make the future of the world more peaceful. The book first analyzes the elements and roots of global insecurity, discussing it in relation to terrorism, torture, economic instability, threatened identity, and religious fundamentalism. It then puts forward a new model for understanding security, wherein Γsoft security capitalΓ serves as the enabling condition for Γhard security capital.Γ Finally, the current policies for managing diversity, "multiculturalism" and "assimilation" are both rejected in favor of an exciting new policyβ"omniculturalism". Drawing on his years of study and expertise, Moghaddam likewise proposes a new policy for better managing intergroup relations in an insecure age.
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