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

Lars Buur

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0796921849 ISBN 13: 9780796921840

Publisher: HSRC Press

Synopsis

The link between security and development has drawn world-wide attention since 9/11. Focussing on southern Africa, The Security-Development Nexus shows that the much debated linkage between security and development is not a recent phenomenon. Rather, it 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 prosper 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 this 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, DDR programs, and the different trajectories democratization have taken in different parts of the region.Co-published with HSRC Press, South Africa

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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
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0796921849
• ISBN 13: 9780796921840
• Binding: Paperback