The decade of the 1990s witnessed enormous changes in the international environment. The Cold War conclusively ended. Biotechnology and communications technology made rapid advances. Barriers to international trade and investment declined. Taken together, these developments created many opportunities for peace and prosperity.At the same time, with the end of superpower domination, ethnically based intranational conflicts brought on widespread suffering. And while globalization expanded opportunity, growth, and incomes, it increased inequality of incomes and decreased human security. Moreover, as countries have become more closely linked, insecurity in one country has affected security in other countries.

Preface: New Threats to Human Security

Contributors

1. New Threats to Human Security in The Era of Globalization

2. Concepts of Human Security

3. Human Security and International Collaboration: Lessons Form Public Goods Theory

4. Global Mobility, Inequality, and Security

5. Trafficking in Persons and Human Security

6. From the Environment and Human Security to Sustainable Security and Development

7. Human Security of Working Women: Response to Crisis

8. Human Insecurity of International Financial Volatility

9. Global Health and Human Security

10. Infectious Disease Threats to National and Global Security

11. Human Security, Poverty, and Conflict: Reform of International Financial Institutions

Index