A hard-headed analysis of the role of the UN in translating ideas about human security from theory into practice

Foreword by Louis Emmerij, Richard Jolly, and Thomas G. Weiss
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
Part I. The Archaeology of Human Security
1. The Prehistory of Human Security
2. The UN and Human Security during the Cold War
3. The Evolving Critique of National Security
Part II. The Emergence of Human Security
4. The UN and Human Security: The Development Dimension
5. The UN and Human Security: The Protection Dimension
6. Human Security and the Protection of Vulnerable Groups
7. Human Security and the UN: A Critique
Conclusion
Notes
Index
About the Authors
About the United Nations Intellectual History Project

S. Neil MacFarlane is Lester B. Pearson Professor of International Relations and Head of the Department of Politics and International Relations at Oxford University and Professional Fellow at St. Anne's College.
Yuen Foong Khong is John G. Winant University Lecturer in American Foreign Policy and Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford University.