Human and Water Security in Israel and Jordan
The work aims at answering the question as to how far discourses on human security are present in Jordan and Israel, if they converge and if political solutions for the issue of water security could be derived. The analysis is based on the assumption that
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Philip Jan Schäfer
Human and Water Security in Israel and Jordan
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Philip Jan Schäfer Weisenheim am Berg Germany
ISSN 2193-3162 ISSN 2193-3170 (electronic) ISBN 978-3-642-29298-9 ISBN 978-3-642-29299-6 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-29299-6 Springer Heidelberg New York Dordrecht London
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Preface
‘Security’ has been a contested term, concept, and issue in international politics and in their academic analysis as international relations. In the twentieth century the ‘security concept’ has been widely used since its inclusion in the Covenant of the League of Nations (1919) and in the Charter of the United Nations (1945) that described as its purpose in Article 1.1 “to maintain international peace and security” by taking collective measures “for the prevention and removal of threats to the peace, and for the suppression or other breaches of the peace”. In contrast, the ‘national security’ concept emerged during World War II in the United States “to explain America’s relationship to the rest of the
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