The Security-Development Nexus: Expressions of Sovereignty and Securitization in Southern Africa - Softcover

Lars Buur (editor), Steffen Jensen (editor) & Finn Stepputat (editor)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0796921849 ISBN 13: 9780796921840

Publisher: HSRC Press, 2007

Synopsis

The link between security and development has been rediscovered after 9/11 by a broad range of scholars. Focusing on southern Africa, The Security-Development Nexus 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.

About this title

About the Author

Lars Buur and Finn Stepputat are Senior Researchers at the Danish Institute for International Studies.

Steffen Jensen is Senior Researcher at the Rehabilitation and Research Centre for Torture Survivors and teaches International Development Studies at Roskilde University, Denmark.

Edition details

• Publisher: HSRC Press
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0796921849
• ISBN 13: 9780796921840
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288