Worlds Apart: Human Security and Global Governance

by Majid Tehranian, Toda Institute for Global Peace and Policy Research

This is volume one of a three-volume series arising from a collaborative international project on Human Security and Global Governance. It is based on the work of a number of peace and policy institutes and on the work of an international range of scholars, policymakers and community leaders. This volume focuses on the problems of security in the Asia-Pacific regions and concentrates on, for example, the economic diversity between the richest and poorest countries in the World, the old-style communist dictatorships and new-style market communism, democratic capitalism, authoritarian capitalism and cultural diversity.

192 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1999

About the author

Professor of International Communication at the University of Hawaii.