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Freedom vs Necessity in International Relations: Human-Centred Approaches to Security and Development
Freedom vs Necessity in International Relations HumanCentred Approaches to Security and Development Author:David Chandler 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 eco... more »nomic, 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 a radical re-think in Western thought.« less