Book Launch: Rethinking Insecurity, War and Violence: Beyond Savage Globalization? October 13, 2008

Rethinking Insecurity, War and Violence: Beyond Savage Globalization? is intended to provide a broad and systematic analysis of the long-term sources of political, military and cultural insecurity from the local to the global. Too often the arenas of violence have been represented as if they have been triggered by reassertions of traditional and tribal forms of identity, primordial and irrational assertions of politics. Rather than treating the sources of insecurity as a retreat from modernity, this book complicates the patterns of global insecurity to a degree that takes the debates beyond simple assumptions that we are witnessing a savage return to a bloody and tribalized world. (Book cover attached)

Launching the book will be Dr Anthony Burke from the Australian Defence Force Academy-University of New South Wales. Anthony has published widely including in the areas of security studies, international ethics, war and peace. He is the author of Fear of Security: Australia’s Invasion Anxiety (2nd ed. Cambridge, 2008), Beyond Security Ethics and Violence: War Against The Other (Routledge, 2007) and editor (with Matt McDonald) of Critical Security in the Asia-Pacific (Manchester, 2007) and co-editor of Introduction to International Relations: Australian Perspectives (Cambridge University Press, 2007).

Please RSVP to Michelle Farley via 9925 8322 or email [email protected] by Friday October 10.

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