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On these pages we will be posting some of the key papers that deal with the core issues of the sources of insecurity.

Alternative Securities
AIDS and Insecurity (See Health and Insecurity)
Development and Insecurity
Global War on Terror
Globalization and Insecurity
Governance, States and Insecurity
Governance, International Organizations and Insecurity
Environment and Insecurity
Health and Insecurity
'Humanitarian Intervention' and Insecurity
Human Security
Reconstruction and Insecurity
Refugees and Social Displacement
Theories of Insecurity and Global Capitalism
Theories of Insecurity and Violence
Truth, Reconciliation and Justice




Alternative Securities

Martin, Brian and Steve Wright, 'Countershock: Mobilising Resistance to Electroshock Weapons', Medicine, Conflict and Survival, vol. 19, no. 3, 2003, pp. 205-22.

Martin, Brian. 'Defending without the Military', in Geoff Harris, ed., Achieving Security in Sub-Saharan Africa: Cost Effective Alternatives to the Military, Institute for Security Studies, Pretoria, 2004, pp. 43-55. Reprinted, in a revised version, in Peace in North-East Asia, International Seminar, Seoul, Korea, 26-29 June 2005 (War Resisters' International, 2005), pp. 56-67 in Korean and pp. 144-156 in English.

Martin, Brian. 'Researching Nonviolent Action: Past Themes and Future Possibilities', Peace & Change, vol. 30, no. 2, April 2005, pp. 247-270. The published version includes slight sub-editorial changes from the version here.



Development and Insecurity

Curry, G.N. & Koczberski, G., 'The risks and uncertainties of migration: an exploration of recent trends amongst the Wosera Abelam of Papua New Guinea', Oceania 70(2), pp. 130-145, 1999.

Koczberski, G., Curry, G.N. & Connell, J., 'Full circle or spiralling out of control? State violence and the control of urbanisation in Papua New Guinea', Urban Studies, 38(11), pp. 2017-2036, 2001.

Koczberski, G. & G. N. Curry, Divided communities and contested landscapes: mobility, development and shifting identities in migrant destination sites in Papua New Guinea, Asia Pacific Viewpoint, vol. 45, no. 3, 2004, pp. 357-371.

Zwi, A.B. and N.J. Grove, ‘Australia’s Role in Promoting Achievement of the Millennium Development Goals’ (editorial), Medical Journal of Australia, vol. 184, no. 3, 2006, pp. 103-4.



Global War on Terror

Beck, Ulrich, ‘The Silence of Words: On Terror and War’, Security Dialogue, vol. 34, no. 3, 2003, pp. 255-67.

Burke, Jason, Al-Qaeda: Casting a Shadow of Terror, I.B. Tauris, London, 2003.

Camilleri, Joe, 'Terrorism, Anti-Terrorism and the Globalization of Insecurity', Arena Journal, vol. 19, 2002, pp. 7-19.

Cooper, Simon, 'Perpetual War Within the State of Exception', Arena Journal, vol. 21, 2003, pp. 99-125.

Cronin, Audrey Kurth, ‘Behind the Curve: Globalization and International Terrorism’, International Security, vol. 27, no. 3, 2002-03, pp. 30-58.

Hinkson, John, 'On Global Terror: September 11 One Year On', Arena Journal, vol. 19, 2002, pp. 33-44.

Lewis, J., 'The Electronic Polis: media, democracy and the 9/11 wars', Reconstruction, Studies in Contemporary Culture, vol. 3, no. 3, 2003, http://reconstruction.eserver.org/033/lewisbest.htm

Nasser, J.R., Globalization and Terrorism, Rowman and Littlefield, Lanham, 2005.

Perera, S., ed., Our Patch: Australian Sovereignty Post 2001, Australian Public Intellectual Network, forthcoming 2006. Contributors include Tim Anderson, Ruth Balint, Anthony Burke, Maxine Chi, Maria Giannacopulos, Suvendrini Perera, Henry Reynolds and Irene Watson.

Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty, ‘Globalicities: Terror and its Consequences’, CR: The New Centennial Review, vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 73-94.

Taylor, S., ‘Reconciling Australia’s International Protection Obligations with the “War on Terrorism”’, Pacifica Review: Peace, Security and Global Change, vol. 14, no. 2, pp. 2002, pp. 121-140. (Restricted access: available through the Local-Global database or from the publisher.)



Globalization and Insecurity




Governance, States and Insecurity




Governance, International Organizations and Insecurity




Environment and Insecurity

Silove, D. and A.B. Zwi, ‘Translating Compassion into Psychosocial Aid after the Tsunami’, The Lancet, vol. 365, 2005, pp. 269-71.



Health and Insecurity

Altman, Dennis, 'HIV and Security', International Relations, vol. 17, no. 4, 2003, pp. 417-27.

Banatvala, N. and A.B. Zwi, ‘Public Health and Humanitarian Interventions: Developing the Evidence Base’, British Medical Journal, vol. 321, 2000, pp. 101-5.

Grove, N.J. and A.B. Zwi, ‘Our Health and Theirs: Forced Migration, Othering, and Public Health’, Social Science and Medicine, vol. 62, 2006, pp. 1931-42.

Zwi, A.B., ‘How should the Health Community Respond to Violent Political Conflict?PLoS Medicine (Public Library of Science), vol. 1, no. 1, 2004, pp. 33-6.

Zwi, A.B. and D. Silove, ‘Hearing the Voices: Mental Health Services in East Timor’, The Lancet, vol. 360, 2002, pp. s45-s46.

Zwi, A.B., N.J. Grove and Maria-Theresa Ho, 'Keeping Track to Keep Australia’s Overseas Aid on Track' (editorial), Medical Journal of Australia, vol. 183, no. 3, 2005, pp. 119-20.




'Humanitarian Intervention' and Insecurity

Banatvala, N. and A.B. Zwi, ‘Public Health and Humanitarian Interventions: Developing the Evidence Base’, British Medical Journal, vol. 321, 2000, pp. 101-5.



Human Security

UNICEF'S Use of the United Nations Trust Fund for Human Security (2002-2004) – An InternalAssessment, United Nations Children's Fund, New York, 2005.

HUMAN SECURITY NOW: Commission on Human Security, Commission on Human Security 2003, New York, 2003.

HUMAN SECURITY UNIT: OVERVIEW AND OBJECTIVES, Human Security Unit, OCHA, New York, 2003.



Reconstruction and Insecurity

Lewis, B. and J. Lewis, 'After the Glow: Challenges and opportunities for community sustainabilityin the context of the Bali bombings', First International Sources of Insecurity Conference, 17-19 November 2004, Globalism Institute, RMIT University

Lewis, B. and J. Lewis, 'The Crisis of Contiguity: Communities and Contention in the Wake of theBali Bombings', First International Sources of Insecurity Conference, 17-19 November 2004, Globalism Institute, RMIT University



Refugees and Social Displacement

Grove, N.J. and A.B. Zwi, ‘Our Health and Theirs: Forced Migration, Othering, and Public Health’, Social Science and Medicine, vol. 62, 2006, pp. 1931-42.

Taylor, S., ‘From Border Control to Migration Management: The Case for a Paradigm Change in the Western Response to Transborder Population Movement’, Social Policy and Administration: An International Journal of Policy and Research, vol. 39, no. 6, 2005, pp. 563-86. (Restricted access. Available through the Local-Global database or from the publisher.)

Taylor, S., ‘Sovereign Power at the Border’, Public Law Review, vol. 16, no. 1, 2005, pp. 55-77. (Restricted access: available through the Local-Global database or from the publisher.)

Taylor, S., ‘The Pacific Solution or A Pacific Nightmare: The Difference Between Burden Shifting and Responsibility Sharing’, Asian-Pacific Law and Policy Journal, vol. 6, no. 1, 2005, pp. 1-43.

Taylor, S., ‘Guarding the Enemy from Oppression: Asylum Seeker Rights Post-September 11’, Melbourne University Law Review, vol. 26, no. 2, 2002, pp. 396-421. (Restricted access: available through the Local-Global database or from the publisher.)




Theories of Insecurity and Global Capitalism


Cameron, Angus and Ronen Palan, The Imagined Economies of Globalization, Sage Publications, London, 2004.

James, Paul, 'Postdependency? The Third World in an Era of Globalism and Late Capitalism', Social Alternatives, vol. 22, 1997, pp. 205-226.

Mann, Michael, Incoherent Empire, Verso, London, 2003.

Savage, Mike, Gaynor Bagnall, Brian Longhurst, Globalization and Belonging, Sage Publications, London, 2005.



Theories of Insecurity and Violence

Barkawi, Tarak, ‘Connection and Constitution: Locating War and Culture in Globalization Studies’, Globalizations, vol. 1, no. 1, 2004, pp. 155-70.

Bauman, Zigmunt, ‘Wars of the Globalization Era’, European Journal of Social Theory, vol. 4, no. 1, 2001, pp. 11-28.

Booth, Ken and Tim Dunne, eds, Worlds in Collision: Terror and the Future of Global Order, Palgrave, Basingstoke, 2002.

Brennan, Teresa, Globalization and its Terrors: Daily Life in the West, Routledge, London, 2003.

Cha, Victor D., ‘Globalization and the Study of International Security’, Journal of Peace Research, vol. 37, no. 3, 2000, pp. 396-403.

Chua, Amy, World on Fire, Doubleday, New York, 2003.

Cooper, Simon, ‘Perpetual War within the State of Exception’, Arena Journal, New Series, no. 21, 2003, pp. 99-125.

Falk, Richard, Predatory Globalization: A Critique, Polity Press, Cambridge, 1999.

Friedman, Jonathan, ed., Globalization, the State and Violence, Rowman and Littlefield, Lanham, 2003.

Helton, A.C., The Price of Indifference: Refugees and Humanitarian Action in the New Century, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2002.

Hinkson, John, ‘On Global Terror: September 11 One Year On’, Arena Journal, New Series, No. 19, 2002, pp. 33-44.

Humphrey, Michael, The Politics of Atrocity and Reconciliation, Routledge, London, 2002.

Ishay, Micheline, The History of Human Rights, University of California Press, California, Berkeley, 2004.

Johnson, Chalmers, The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy and the End of the Republic, Metropolitan Books, New York, 2004.

Meyer, Bridgette and Peter Geshiere, eds, Globalization and Identity, Blackwell Publishers, Oxford, 1999

Modelski, George and Patrick M. Morgan, ‘Understanding Global War’, Journal of Conflict Resolution, vol. 29, no. 3, 1985, pp. 391-417.

Nairn, Tom, and Paul James, Global Matrix: Nationalism, Globalism and State-Terrorism, Pluto, London, 2005.

Paris, Roland, ‘Peacekeeping and the Constraints of Global Culture’, European Journal of International Relations, vol. 9, no. 3, 2003, pp. 441-73.

Prins, Gwyn, ‘Global Security and Military Intervention’, Security Dialogue, vol. 27, no. 1, 1996, pp. 7-16.

Steger, Manfred B., Judging Non-Violence, Routledge, New York, 2003.

Steger, Manfred B., Globalism: Market Ideology Meets Terrorism, 2nd Edn, Rowman and Littlefield, Lanham, 2005.

Stewart, P.J. and A. Strathern, Violence: Theory and Ethnography, Continuum, London, 2002.

Venn, Couze, ‘World Dis/order: On Some Fundamental Questions’, Theory, Culture & Society, vol. 19, no. 4, 2002, pp. 121-36.

Wieviorka, Michel, The Making of Terrorism, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2nd Edn 2004.

Zartman, I.W., ed., Collapsed States, Lynne Reinner, Boulder, 1995.




Truth, Reconciliation and Justice

Chanda, Ateesh S., 'Transitional Justice: The Case of East Timor', Senior Thesis Degree of Bachelor of Arts with Honours in Internationational Relations, Brown University Providence, Rhode Island, May 2004

Humphery, Michael, 'From Victim to Victimhood: Truth Commissions and Trials as Rituals of Political Transition and Individual Healing', Australian Journal of Anthropology, vol. 14, no. 12, 2003, pp. 171-87.

Humphery, Michael, 'International intervention, justice and national reconciliation: the role of the ICTY and ICTR in Bosnia and Rwanda', Journal of Human Rights, vol. 2, no. 4, pp. 495–505.



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