ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the ontological and normative foundations of world security approaches with the objective of understanding the nature of these foundations in tandem with the necessity of introducing new foundations to render these approaches truly global, as well as local. It examines how individuals, as members of from the local to the global, become the ontological foundation for a world security analysis. World security approaches differ especially in this particular ontological claim, although their differences can be less conflictual than presumed. The chapter focuses on the conditions under which world security approaches can be operationalised in contemporary global politics. It offers a possible research agenda by introducing bodies and spaces in their own localities as new foundations of a world security analysis. The chapter argues that world security approaches can pay attention to urban-based resistance movements such as those that have recently flourished in Cairo, New York, Istanbul and Rio, to name a few.
