Political practices, agencies and institutions around the world promote the need for humans,
individually and collectively, to develop capacities of resilience. We must accept and adapt …

Security matters. It is impossible to make sense of world politics without reference to it. Every
day, people somewhere in the world are killed, starved, tortured, raped, impoverished …

What is the relation between sustainable development and neoliberalism? Mark Duffield
argues that the shift from strategies of development preaching modernisation to sustainable …

If you thought the point of war was to win, this book will make you think again. David Keen
questions the model of war as a contest between two sides aiming at political and military …

Current debates and discussions of the emerging security–development nexus tend to
portray this as signifying the increased importance of the problems of non-Western states to …

The concept of 'health security'has been increasingly apparent in recent years in both
academic and policy discourses on transborder infectious disease threats. Yet it has been …

The problems of development and security have historically formed distinct discourses. More
recently, they have been inextricably linked both in discourse and in much policy, thus …

One of the defining features of post-Cold War international relations has been the correlation
of development practices and rationalities with those of security, and the emergence of what …

The donor community may look back on the 1990s as a watershed. In that decade, some
developing countries took off in growth terms, apparently benefiting from and effectively …

This paper introduces the policy arena by examining the increasing interlinking of
international development policy with security concerns, particularly at a discursive level in …