Human security as statecraft : structural conditions, articulations and unintended consequences / Nik Hynek.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1.Conceptual framework -- Theorisation as conceptual practice, experimentation and assemblages -- Rhizomatic and arborescent models of assemblage -- Political rationalities and economies of power -- Governmentalised human-security assemblages -- 2.Imageries of human security -- Normative imagery of Canadian human security -- Orientalist imagery of Japanese human security -- A critical meta-analysis of the imageries -- 3.Canadian conditions of possibility -- Domestic transformations as conditions of possibility -- Foreign- and security-policy conditions of possibility -- Changes in political rationalities -- A shift in the security dispositif -- 4.The landmine case as a rhizomatic assemblage -- Echoes of the nineteenth-century humanitarian disarmament -- Canada in the vanguard of international norm entrepreneurship -- Domestic micropractices and technologies of power -- 5.Hybridised human-security assemblage -- External militarisation and sovereign biopolitics -- Afghan neutralisation and counter-terrorism domestication -- Neo-liberalised `humanitarianism' and the proliferation of risk management -- 6.Structural conditions for Japanese continuity -- Domestic orthodoxies as conditions for fundamental continuity -- Foreign- and security-policy orthodoxies as moulding conditions -- Developments in the domestic economy of power -- Neo-mercantile developmentalist governmentality as foreign and security policy -- 7.Japanese human security as a continuing politics of convergence -- `Comprehensive national security' as the master convergence -- Bureaucratic construction of the Japanese Human Security Programme -- From programme to assemblage: Japanese appropriation of human security through the United Nations -- 8.Domopolitical assemblage of Japanese human security -- Convergence and domopolitics as complementary diagrams of power -- Delivering post-conflict peace: human security replaces the military war machine -- Producing Human (in)security: rebuilding their homes, denying their entrance -- Domopolitical administration of NGOs: from Kobe to Afghanistan and beyond.