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

ISBN-10: 0796921849
ISBN-13: 9780796921840
Pages: 284
Language: English
Published: 2007
Publisher: Human Sciences Research Council
Authors: Finn Stepputat, Lars Buur, Steffen Jensen

Description

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, DDR programmes and the different trajectories democratization has taken in different parts of the region.