5 - Securitizing Development through Military Intervention?
Corresponding Author(s) : Jessica Piombo
Africa Review of Books,
Vol. 13 No. 2 (2017): Africa Review of Books, volume 13, n° 2, 2017
Abstract
Jessica Piombo’s edited collection, The US Military in Africa: Enhancing Security and Development, examines the US Department of Defence’s (DoD) shift from traditional to non-traditional role that blends security, governance and development in sub-Saharan Africa. The book shows this shift and examines the nexus in the context of the hegemonic discourse that the world will be a secure place if poor countries and fragile states got the opportunity to develop (Stern & Öjendal 2010). This nexus brought governance into the paradigm of securitization of development since attention to the multiple layers of governance, where security laws are made and brokered, is vital in the quest for development (Luckham
and Kirk 2013).
Keywords
- Dexter, H., 2007, ‘New War, Good War and the War on Terror: Explaining, Ex- cusing and Creating Western Neo-interventionism’, Development and Change, 38(6), 1055-1071.
- Dexter, H., 2008, ‘The “New War” on Terror, Cosmopolitanism and the “Just War” Revival’, Government and Opposition, Vol. 43(1), 55–78.
- Dower, N., 2009, ‘Pacifism, Non-Violence and the Way of Peace’, in his The Ethics of War and Peace, Cambridge: Polity.
- Duffield, M., 2012, ‘Risk Management and the Bunkering of the Aid Industry’, Development Dialogue, 58, 21-37.
- Duffield, M. and Hewitt, V., 2009, ‘Introduction’, in Duffield, M. and Hewitt, V. (eds.), Empire and Colonialism: The Past in the Present, United Kingdom: James Currey.
- Escobar,A., 2012, Encountering Development, Princeton: Princeton University Press. Hegre, H., T.
- Ellingsen, S. Gates, and N. Gleditsch, 2001, ‘Towards a Democratic Civil Peace? Democracy, Political Change, and Civil War, 1816-1992’, American Political Science Review, 95(1), 33-48.
- Hettne, B., 2010, ‘Development and Security: Origins and Future’, Security Dia- logue, 41(1), 31–52.
- Kaldor, M., 2013, ‘In defence of new wars’, Stability: International Journal of Security and Development, 1-16.
- Luckham, R. and Kirk, T., 2013, ‘The Two Faces of Security in Hybrid Political Orders: A Framework
- for Analysis and Research,’Stability: International Journal of Security & Development, 2(2), 1-30.
- Luckham, R., 2009, ‘Introduction: Transforming Security and Development in an Unequal World’, Institute of Development Studies Bulletin, 40(2), 1-10.
- O’Gorman, E., 2011, Conflict and Development: Development Matters, London and New York: Zed Books.
- Oberschall, A., 2010, ‘Conflict Theory’, in Kevin T. Leicht, J. Craig Jenkin (eds.), Handbook of Politics, New York: Springer.
- Richmond, O.P., 2010. ‘Resistance and the Post-Liberal Peace’, Millennium, 38(3), pp.665-692.
- Richmond, P. O. and Mac Ginty, R., 2014, Where now for the critique of the liberal peace, Cooperation and Conflict. London: Sage.
- Stern, M. and Öjendal, J., 2010, ‘Mapping the Security-Development Nexus: Con- flict, Complexity, Cacophony, Convergence?’ Security Dialogue, 41(1), 5-30.
References
Dexter, H., 2007, ‘New War, Good War and the War on Terror: Explaining, Ex- cusing and Creating Western Neo-interventionism’, Development and Change, 38(6), 1055-1071.
Dexter, H., 2008, ‘The “New War” on Terror, Cosmopolitanism and the “Just War” Revival’, Government and Opposition, Vol. 43(1), 55–78.
Dower, N., 2009, ‘Pacifism, Non-Violence and the Way of Peace’, in his The Ethics of War and Peace, Cambridge: Polity.
Duffield, M., 2012, ‘Risk Management and the Bunkering of the Aid Industry’, Development Dialogue, 58, 21-37.
Duffield, M. and Hewitt, V., 2009, ‘Introduction’, in Duffield, M. and Hewitt, V. (eds.), Empire and Colonialism: The Past in the Present, United Kingdom: James Currey.
Escobar,A., 2012, Encountering Development, Princeton: Princeton University Press. Hegre, H., T.
Ellingsen, S. Gates, and N. Gleditsch, 2001, ‘Towards a Democratic Civil Peace? Democracy, Political Change, and Civil War, 1816-1992’, American Political Science Review, 95(1), 33-48.
Hettne, B., 2010, ‘Development and Security: Origins and Future’, Security Dia- logue, 41(1), 31–52.
Kaldor, M., 2013, ‘In defence of new wars’, Stability: International Journal of Security and Development, 1-16.
Luckham, R. and Kirk, T., 2013, ‘The Two Faces of Security in Hybrid Political Orders: A Framework
for Analysis and Research,’Stability: International Journal of Security & Development, 2(2), 1-30.
Luckham, R., 2009, ‘Introduction: Transforming Security and Development in an Unequal World’, Institute of Development Studies Bulletin, 40(2), 1-10.
O’Gorman, E., 2011, Conflict and Development: Development Matters, London and New York: Zed Books.
Oberschall, A., 2010, ‘Conflict Theory’, in Kevin T. Leicht, J. Craig Jenkin (eds.), Handbook of Politics, New York: Springer.
Richmond, O.P., 2010. ‘Resistance and the Post-Liberal Peace’, Millennium, 38(3), pp.665-692.
Richmond, P. O. and Mac Ginty, R., 2014, Where now for the critique of the liberal peace, Cooperation and Conflict. London: Sage.
Stern, M. and Öjendal, J., 2010, ‘Mapping the Security-Development Nexus: Con- flict, Complexity, Cacophony, Convergence?’ Security Dialogue, 41(1), 5-30.