Practicing the impossible? : The individual's, the state's, and the world's security "concepts, dimensions, transformations" , authored by : Aqil Saeed Mahfoud

Security is the main issue in existence, and the main saying in politics and human urbanization, and this explains how security represents the main concern in the world, and there is no better evidence of that than the prevalence of its sayings and names in most aspects of contemporary life. What is security, and how can we understand the concepts of security, and what meanings and connotations does it have today, and what frameworks of knowledge and concepts are used to approach it, on the level of the individual, the state, and the world, and why does man persist in his pursuit of security, despite his certainty that it is akin to practicing the impossible? What transformations have occurred in the concepts of security in the post-modern world, and what is the impact of the information revolution, the technological revolution, and the knowledge revolution that have affected almost everything in the world today: the individual, society, the state, the economy, politics, values, and the environment? The book starts from an epistemological reference primarily, and attempts to go beyond or expand the prevailing approaches to security studies, by employing concepts and references from philosophy, epistemology, sociology, psychology, politics, state studies, cultural analysis, security studies, development studies, and others. Number of pages: 407