As a result, it only describes the politics it has helped create. Its lessons thereby become self-fulfilling. From strategy to security . An understanding of human security demands a far wider perspective than the study of military strategy, because military force is not the only source of threat in people's lives. More people on earth today are endangered by their own governments, through malevolence or incompetence, than they are by the armed forces of an aggressive neighbour.
War is only part of global insecurities.
Poverty, hunger, disease and oppression destroy people s lives. From the past to the future . Coping with the coming global crises with any degree of success demands that those involved in influencing and making policy will need the intellectual depth and strength necessary to reinvent a new world - a challenge requiring imagination as well as confidence. Humans are a meaning-creating species, and accounts of the past are central. The first global age therefore needs a history to match its scale, because we need all the help we can get to construct the meanings that will help us face the radical circumstances of the 21st century.