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	vii
Contributors	xiii
1. New Threats to Human Security in the Era of Globalization	1
Sakiko Fukuda-Parr
2. Concepts of Human Security	15
Sabina Alkire
3. Human Security and International Collaboration: Lessons from Public Goods Theory	41
Fen Osler Hampson and Mark W. Zacher
4. Global Mobility, Inequality, and Security	65
Robert L. Bach
5. Trafficking in Persons and Human Security	87
Michele Anne Clark
6. From the Environment and Human Security to Sustainable Security and Development	107
Sanjeev Khagram, William C. Clark, and Dana Firas Raad
7. Human Security of Working Women: Response to Crisis	137
Tony Vaux and Francie Lund
8. Human Insecurity of International Financial Volatility	163
Stephany Griffith-Jones and Jenny Kimmis
9. Global Health and Human Security	183
Lincoln C. Chen and Vasant Narasimhan
10. Infectious Disease Threats to National and Global Security	195
David L. Heymann
11. Human Security, Poverty, and Conflict: Reform of International Financial Institutions	215
Nat J. Colletta
Index		243




Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: World health, Globalization Social aspects, Medical policy International cooperation, Basic needs, Security, International, World Health, Health Policy, International Cooperation, Safety