This new book presents critical approaches towards Human Security, which has become one of the key areas for policy and academic debate within Security Studies and IR.

1. Introduction: Emancipation and Power in Human Security Nik Hynek and David Chandler Part I 2. 'We the Peoples': Contending Discourses of Security in Human Rights Theory and Practice Tim Dunne and Nicholas J. Wheeler 3. Development of the Human Security Field: A Critical Examination David Bosold 4. Post-Colonial Hybridity and the Return of Human Security Oliver P. Richmond 5. Towards a Critical Security Paradigm? Reconceptualizing the 'Vital Core' of Human Security Giorgio Shani 6. Human Security, Biopoverty and the Possibility for Emancipation David Roberts 7. Institutionalised and Co-opted: Why Human Security Has Lost Its Way Mandy Turner, Neil Cooper and Michael Pugh Part II 8. The Limits to Emancipation in the Human Security Framework Tara McCormack 9. Rethinking Global Discourses of Security David Chandler 10. Human Security and the Securing of Human Life: Tracing Global Sovereign and Biopolitical Rule Marc G. Doucet and Miguel de Larrinaga 11. Problematising Life under Biopower: A Foucauldian versus an Agambenite Critique of Human Security Suvi Alt 12. Rethinking Human Security: Economy, Governmentality and Hybridization of Individuals Nik Hynek 13. Human Security: Sovereignty, Citizenship, Disorder Kyle Grayson 14. Inhuman Security Mark Neocleous