Summary
Contents
Subject index
What does it mean to live in `risk society'? How does the idea of risk change how we live with each other? Risk currently dominates individual and collective consciousness. Globally, insecurity is related to terrorism, pollution, global epidemics and famine, yet smoking, sunlight and travel have also become major preoccupations. This book provides a powerful and lucid account of risk in society today. Denney critically examines the social construction of risk, by considering a range of social theories, addressing the literature and providing an authoritative guide to the key issues raised. An analysis of the nature of risk to aspects of everyday life – of the meanings which have been assigned to notions of risk – is also considered. Finally, global themes such as terrorism, global regulation governance and developments in international relations are examined. This book will be required reading for students of risk within the fields of Sociology, International Relations and Media, Culture and Communications.
Risk and the New World Order
Risk and the New World Order
Outline
This chapter develops some of the themes which emerged in Chapter Nine. The changing role of the United Nations in relation to the risk of international conflict will be discussed. The events and arguments justifying the pre-emptive strike on Iraq will also be examined. It will be argued that the concept of risk underpinned the case for war, while the action taken to address the risk was in itself a high-risk strategy within international relations.
The Role of the un in Reducing the Risk of Conflict
The system that structured and guided international relations until the end of the Second World War was established in 1648 by the Treaty of Westphalia. Within this system, independent sovereign ...
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