Development, Security and Unending War: Governing the World of Peoples - Couverture rigide

Duffield, Mark

 
9780745635798: Development, Security and Unending War: Governing the World of Peoples
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0745635792 ISBN 13 : 9780745635798
Editeur : Polity Press, 2007

Synopsis

According to politicians, we now live in a radically interconnected world. Unless there is international stability - even in the most distant places - the West's way of life is threatened. In meeting this global danger, reducing poverty and developing the unstable regions of the world are now imperative. In what has become a truism of the post-Cold War period, security without development is questionable, while development without security is impossible.


In this accessible and path-breaking book, Mark Duffield questions this conventional wisdom and lays bare development not as a way of bettering other people but of governing them. He offers a profound critique of the new wave of Western humanitarian and peace interventionism, arguing that rather than bridging the lifechance divide between development and underdevelopment, it maintains and polices it. As part of the defence of an insatiable mass consumer society, those living beyond its borders must be content with self-reliance.


With case studies drawn from Mozambique, Ethiopia and Afghanistan, the book provides a critical and historically informed analysis of the NGO movement, humanitarian intervention, sustainable development, human security, coherence, fragile states, migration and the place of racism within development. It is a must-read for all students and scholars of development, humanitarian intervention and security studies as well as anyone concerned with our present predicament.

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À propos de l?auteur

Mark Duffield is Professor of Development Politics at the University of Bristol.

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Éditeur
Polity Press
Date d'édition
2007
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0745635792
ISBN 13 
9780745635798
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
280
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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9780745635804: Development, Security and Unending War: Governing the World of Peoples

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0745635806 ISBN 13 :  9780745635804
Editeur : Polity, 2007
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