The Security-Development Nexus
Expressions of Sovereignty and Securitization in Southern Africa
Published on 15. January 2007
Book
Paperback/Softback
288 pages
978-0-7969-2184-0 (ISBN)
Description
The link between security and development has been rediscovered after 9/11 by a broad range of scholars. Focusing on southern Africa, <em>The Security-Development Nexus</em> shows that the much-debated linkage is by no means a recent invention. Rather, the security/development linkage has been an important element of the state policies of colonial as well as post-colonial regimes during the Cold War, and it seems to be prospering in new configurations under the present wave of democratic transitions.
Contributors focus on a variety of contexts from South Africa, Mozambique and Namibia, to Zimbabwe and Democratic Congo.
They explore the nexus and our understanding of security and development through the prism of peace-keeping interventions, community policing, human rights, gender, land contests, squatters, nation and state-building, social movements, disarmament and reintegration programmes and the different trajectories democratisation has taken in different parts of the region.
Contributors focus on a variety of contexts from South Africa, Mozambique and Namibia, to Zimbabwe and Democratic Congo.
They explore the nexus and our understanding of security and development through the prism of peace-keeping interventions, community policing, human rights, gender, land contests, squatters, nation and state-building, social movements, disarmament and reintegration programmes and the different trajectories democratisation has taken in different parts of the region.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cape Town
South Africa
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Weight
333 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7969-2184-0 (9780796921840)
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<strong>Lars Buur</strong> and <strong>Finn Stepputat</strong> are Senior Researchers at the Danish Institute for International Studies.
<strong>Steffen Jensen is Senior Researcher at the Rehabilitation and Research Centre for Torture Survivors and teaches International Development Studies at Roskilde University, Denmark.
<strong>Steffen Jensen is Senior Researcher at the Rehabilitation and Research Centre for Torture Survivors and teaches International Development Studies at Roskilde University, Denmark.