Security and development

Since 9/11 ideas of security have focused in part on the development of ungovernable spaces. Important debates are now being had over the nature, impacts, and outcomes of the numerous policy statements made by northern governments, NGOs, and international institutions that view the merging of security with development as both unproblematic and progressive. This volume addresses this new security-development nexus and investigates internal institutional logics, as well as the operation of policy, its dangers, resistances and complicity with other local and national social processes. Drawing on

"Are we in this together?" security, development, and the "comprehensive approach" agenda / Finn Stepputat -- Developmentality and the World Bank in the new aid architecture / Jon Harald Sande Lie -- Securitization in stable settings: the privatization of government and Zambia's 'war on corruption' / Jeremy Gould -- Securing resources through exceptional means in the Americas / John-Andrew McNeish -- Securitization of the social and state transformation from Iraq to Mozambique / Bjorn Enge Bertelsen -- (In)security in a space of exception: the destruction of the Nahr El-Bared refugee camp / Are Knudsen -- The strength of weak ideas?: human security, policy history, and climate change in Bangladesh / David Lewis -- Seduced by security: the politics of (in)security on Lombok, Indonesia / Kari Telle -- Plural security: moral order and security in Cambodia / Alexandra Kent