The End of the Development-Security Nexus? The Rise of Global Disaster Management

Thinking and policy on ‘development’ and ‘security’ have undergone paradigmatic shifts in recent decades. The well-known merger of development and security into a ‘development-security nexus’ is now shifting towards an increasingly institutionalised securitisation. Security is everywhere, and development is security. A new discourse and practice is arising as the meaning of these concepts shift and the referents and objects of development and security are changing. Gradually we are moving beyond the development-security nexus into the reign of continuous global disaster management. These new articulations of the development-security nexus and global disaster management have served to legitimise a more radical interventionist agenda – first and foremost carried out by the West in the Global South. With thought-provoking contributions by leading authorities in this burgeoning field, this volume makes sense of the aforementioned paradigmatic shift. The articles explore the rationale and forces behind the institutionalisation of interventionism and intrusive disaster management as well as the consequences thereof in a number of policy domains and cases.

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Preface Henning Melber
Introduction – The End of the Development-Security Nexus? Jens Stilhoff Sörensen and Fredrik Söderbaum
Risk Management and the Bunkering of the Aid Industry Mark Duffield
Foucault’s Boomerang – The New Military Urbanism Stephen Graham
The Failure of Statebuilding – Changing Biopolitics and the Splintering of Societies Jens Stilhoff Sörensen
The Disastrous and Politically Debased Subject of Resilience Julian Reid
Global Disaster Management and Therapeutic Governance of Communities Vanessa Pupavac
Empowering the Disposable? Biopolitics, Race and Human Development Giorgio Shani
Development as Freedom? From Colonialism to Countering Climate Change David Chandler
Rethinking Intervention and Interventionism Linnéa Gelot and Fredrik Söderbaum
Whose Security in Palestine? The Impact of the EU’s Security Sector Reform in Palestine Michael Schulz
Intervention or Interaction? Developing Ideas from Cambodia Alexandra Kent