'This book is an excellent critique of the theoretical games that academics can become distracted by and the hegemonic norms that policy makers perpetuate as common sense. It stands as a timely intervention into the debate on human security and as an innovative critique of global governance as an over-arching problem in terms of achieving broad human security. It adopts a 'neo-Foucauldian' approach which presents neo-liberalism as the calculated mismanagement of global life.' Pauline Eadie, University of Nottingham 'David Roberts has produced a tightly argued and impassioned manifesto for human security on a global scale. A manifesto which puts basic human needs at the centre and which argues that the barriers to meeting them are far from insuperable. Starting with the needs of those marginalised by traditional approaches, Roberts offers a new and challenging vision of power, policy-making and security for the twenty-first century.' David Chandler, University of Westminster 'Driven by the spectre of preventable poverty and suffering, David Roberts delivers a devastating critique of the neoliberal global order. As a way of bridging the global life-chance divide, Roberts provides a persuasive argument in support of human security as a mobilising and emancipatory concept. This is a must read for all those interested not only in social justice but the means by which social protection can be applied globally.' Mark Duffield, University of Bristol