Publications

Data Sheet: María Cristina Rosas (Coordinator), Human Security and Multidimensional Security under Debate; Mexico, Center for Analysis and Research on Peace, Security and Development Olof Palme / National Autonomous University of Mexico, first edition, 2017, 285. ISBN: 978-607-02-9469-3.

Human Security and Multidimensional Security are probably the two most important concepts coined after the end of the Cold War, in the spirit of reconfiguring ‘security’ by dissipating the dust that raised the collapse of the Soviet Union and, with it, the disappearance of the East-West confrontation. The first of these (Human Security) was conceived by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) in 1994, in its 'Report on Human Development'; a concept with a strong developmental aspect that incorporates the anthropocentric notion of security. The second, managed after the terrorist attacks against the United States on September 11, 2001, within the Organization of American States (OAS); the concept sought to protect the American continent from the United States attempt to ‘terrorize’ the security agendas of the nations of the region, by including various issues considered important scourges to them.

This book constitutes an analysis effort in which 11 authors, all of them academics, affiliated with prestigious institutions such as  the National Autonomous University of Mexico, the College of Veracruz, the National Electoral Institute, the University of Calgary, Georgetown University, the Inter-American Bank of Development and the University of Guadalajara (among others), analyze in separate chapters the importance and relevance of Human Security and Multidimensional Security as frameworks for addressing issues as multiple, diverse and relevant such as international terrorism, human rights, protectionism and biosecurity; energy security, relations between Canada and the United States, relations between Mexico and the United States, transnational organized crime, illicit trafficking in small arms and light weapons, and naval power, among others.

Contents:

Introduction.

Human Security and Multidimensional Security – Importance for Mexico’s National Security Agenda.

Maria Cristina Rosas

The Global Preventive War Against Terrorism and the Violation of Human Rights.

José de Jesús Borjón Nieto 

International System for the Protection of Human Rights as a Control to the War Against Terrorism – Security Analysis Approaches.

Marco Vinicio Gallardo Enríquez 

More than Fifteen Years Fighting International Terrorism? Assessing the 'Protectionism' of Global Powers.

Jorge Alfonso Monjaráz Domínguez 

Security and Energy Supply at the Dawn of the 21st Century.

Ángel Eduardo Rivera Pérez 

Energy Security – A 'Broad Agenda' Perspective.

Abner Munguía Gaspar 

North American Relations - Balance of the Last Decade.

Stephen J. Randall 

United States 'Security Policy' towards Mexico and Latin America - Terrorism and Organized Crime.

John Bailey 

From 'Security Enemies' to Aspirational Models – Reflections on Transnational Organized Crime.

Gilberto Cornejo Álvarez 

Prospects for Expanding Mexico's National Security Agenda within the Framework of Combating Illicit Trafficking in Small Arms and Light Weapons.

Gustavo Mauricio Bastién Olvera 

Global Naval Power in the 21stCentury – Lessons for the Mexican Navy.

Marcos Pablo Moloeznik 

Final Thoughts.