New Global Insecurity The

A noted conflict expert shows how accelerating globalization is causing dangerous global insecurity that must be met by new security models and policies.The New Global Insecurity: How Terrorism Environmental Collapse Economic Inequalities and Resource Shortages Are Changing Our World explores insecurity arising out of accelerating globalization. In this unique and forward-thinking work psychologist Fathali M. Moghaddam director of the Conflict Studies Program at Georgetown University explains how and why worldwide insecurity is rising and what steps we must take to quell or reverse that insecurity to make the future of the world more peaceful.The book first analyzes the elements and roots of global insecurity discussing it in relation to terrorism torture economic instability threatened identity and religious fundamentalism. It then puts forward a new model for understanding security wherein soft security capital serves as the enabling condition for hard security capital. Finally the current policies for managing diversity multiculturalism and assimilation are both rejected in favor of an exciting new policyomniculturalism. Drawing on his years of study and expertise Moghaddam likewise proposes a new policy for better managing intergroup relations in an insecure age.