ABSTRACT
Human security appears to be one of the central categories through which the changing nature of security discourses and policy practices is understood and analysed. This book is concerned with critical perspectives towards human security, highlighting some of the tensions which can emerge between critical perspectives which discursively radicalise human security within frameworks of emancipatory possibility and those which attempt to deconstruct human security within the framework of an externally imposed attempt to regulate and order the globe on behalf of hegemonic power. The chapters gathered in this edited collection represent a range of critical approaches which bring together alternative understandings of human security.
