Routledge Library Editions: Security and Society
Title | Routledge Library Editions: Security and Society PDF eBook |
Author | Various |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 3181 |
Release | 2021-09-30 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1000519333 |
This 12-volume set contains titles, originally published between 1934 and 1995. An eclectic mix of titles, this collection draws from anthropology, economics, ethics, politics, psychology and sociology. Exploring security in both war and peacetime it includes volumes looking at: the causes of war and its effect on society as a whole; the soldiers themselves and their place in society; the portrayal of war in the press, both in words and photographs and the politics behind them.
Nordic Societal Security
Title | Nordic Societal Security PDF eBook |
Author | Sebastian Larsson |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 268 |
Release | 2020-07-08 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781003045533 |
"This book compares and contrasts publicly espoused security concepts in the Nordic region, and explores the notion of societal security. Outside observers often assume that Nordic countries take similar approaches to the security and safety of their citizens. This book challenges that assumption and traces the evolution of 'societal security', and its broadly equivalent concepts, in Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland. The notion of societal security is deconstructed and analysed in terms of its different meanings and implications for each country, through both country- and issue-focused studies. Each chapter traces the evolution of key security concepts and related practices, allowing for a comparison of similarities and differences between these four countries. Using discourses and practices as evidence, this is the first book to explore how different Nordic nations have conceptualised domestic security over time. The findings will be valuable to scholars from across the geographical and theoretical spectrum, while highlighting how Nordic security discourses and practices may deviate from traditional assumptions about Nordic values. This book will be of much interest to students of security studies, Nordic politics and International Relations"--
Social Security and Society
Title | Social Security and Society PDF eBook |
Author | Victor George |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 206 |
Release | 2018-07-20 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0429894880 |
Originally published in 1973, Social Security and Society examines of the dominant forces that form the British social security system and argues that social security provision is not the result of concern felt by the dominant groups in society. Instead the book suggests that it is the result of the threat posed to the status quo by the growing political power of the working class, and the realization by the dominant groups, that social security benefits are functional to economic growth and political stability. The book covers poverty, low pay, unemployment and equality, and demonstrates how social security measures reflect and reinforce the inequalities of the economic and social system – inequalities which are accepted, legitimised and approved by society.
Routledge Library Editions
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Merchants of Death
Title | Merchants of Death PDF eBook |
Author | Helmuth Carol Engelbrecht |
Publisher | Ludwig von Mises Institute |
Pages | 340 |
Release | 1937 |
Genre | Arms transfers |
ISBN | 1610163907 |
Genetic Seeds of Warfare
Title | Genetic Seeds of Warfare PDF eBook |
Author | R. Paul Shaw |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 288 |
Release | 2020-12-22 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1000258955 |
For millennia humanity has simultaneously deplored and waged war. With each conflict the stakes have risen, and we now face global annihilation for the sake of a practice all the world claims to condemn. Is there some seemingly irresistible force that impels us toward our own destruction? To explain this central paradox of human behaviour, Genetic Seeds of Warfare, originally published in 1989, advances a startling new theory. It traces the origins of warfare back to early groups of Homo sapiens in competition for scarce resources, showing that warfare evolved as these groups evolved: kin-group against kin-group; tribe against tribe; nation against nation. Rather than being tied to a specific gene, warfare emerged as one of many behavioural strategies for maximising genetic survival. As social groups became more complex, motivations for warfare developed from simple protection of blood relations to political appeals to shared ethnicity, religion, and national identity. But the ultimate cause of warfare is rooted in the most basic of human drives: the need to ensure that one’s genes will survive and reproduce. The authors challenge many assumptions about human behaviour in general, and warfare in particular. They convincingly present the case for an evolutionary understanding of the propensity for warfare, supporting their argument with data from a vast array of social and natural science research. In doing so, they reveal why previous attempts at ending war have failed, and make proactive suggestions toward the development of a new agenda for world peace.