Human Security in Asia

Preface.- Acknowledgements.- Abbreviations.- Chapter-1: Introduction and Theoretical Outline of Human Security.- Chapter-2 Imaginations and Constructions: Rethinking Human Security.- Chapter-3: From Traditional Security to Human Security: A Conceptual Framework.- Chapter-4: State's Role in Vietnam's Pharmaceutical Industry: An Approach to Sustainable Development for Human Health Security.- Chapter-5: Approaches and Challenges of Japan's Human Security Policy: An Evaluation.- Chapter-6: A Comparative Study between the Minorities of India with the Minorities of Pakistan and Bangladesh: Question of Human Security.- Chapter-7: Security Concern of Women at Rohingya Camps in Bangladesh: Analysis form Human Security and State Security Perspective.- Chapter-8: Food Security in Bangladesh: Searching for Durable Strategies.- Chapter-9: Human Insecurity in Myanmar: Varied Responses and the Way Forward.- Chapter-10: Human Security as National Security: Understanding Pakistan in 21st Century.- Chapter-11: Human Security and Livelihood in Afghanistan.- Chapter-12: A Decade of Armed Conflict and Vulnerability of Children in Nepal: In Search of the Ray of Solution.- Chapter-13: Challenges to Human Security in Central Asia: The Impact of Aral Sea Crisis and Covid-19 Pandemic.

Debasish Nandy (Ph.D.) is an Associate Professor and Head of, the Department of Political Science at Kazi Nazrul University, Asansol, West Bengal, India. Dr. Nandy is the Coordinator of the Centre for Studies of South and South-East Asian Societies at the same university. Dr. Nandy was the Visiting Faculty in the Department of Foreign Area Studies at Tajik National University, Tajikistan in 2019.  Dr Nandy was the Visiting Faculty at the Department of Japanese Studies, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh in 2022.  He was the Visiting Faculty at Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences, Frankfurt, Germany in 2023. Dr Nandy has edited 12 books and is the author of 5 books. He has published 54 research articles in various reputed journals and contributed 63 book chapters in edited volumes. His research areas are India's Foreign Policy, Security Studies, Peace Studies, Refugees and Migration, South Asian Politics and Environment.



Debtanu Majee (Ph.D.) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Bidhan Chandra College, Rishra, Hooghly, West Bengal, India, and a Ph.D. research scholar in the Department of Political Science, Kazi Nazrul University, West Bengal, India. Dr Majee is also a Guest Faculty member in the Department of Political Science, Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata, India. His research interest includes Human Security in South Asia.