Author/Contributor(s): | Wilkin, Peter |
Publisher: | Pluto Press |
Date: | 09/20/2001 |
Binding: | Paperback |
Condition: | NEW |
He reveals how human security is a concern with social relations that connect people in local, national and global networks of power, structured through capitalism and hierarchical inter-state systems.
Autonomy, as an aspect of human security, depends upon the ability of citizens to gain information about the processes that shape their lives. In this respect autonomy and communication are inherently linked and are prerequisites for the establishment of meaningful democratic systems.