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Fighting poverty to fight terrorism: security in DfID's development policy during the war on terror

McConnon, Eamonn (2014) Fighting poverty to fight terrorism: security in DfID's development policy during the war on terror. Forum for Development Studies, 41 (1). pp. 135-157. ISSN 1891-1765

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Abstract

This article builds on existing research on the securitisation of development aid following 9/11. Investigating arguments that the UK’s concern is with security at home and not the security of developing states, the policy discourse of the UK’s Department for International Development (DfID) is examined through its four major policy documents and two major security documents for the period from the late 1990s to the late 2000s. Two levels of analysis are used; a content analysis, and a discourse analysis. This article argues that DfID has: given increasing space to conflict and security and, after initial restrictions placed on DfID’s involvement in security in the late 1990s, security has become a key development concern during the War on Terror. In the process the goal of Human Security - to place development issues as security concerns - has been reversed and, instead, DfID has included security as a development problem.

Item Type:Article (Published)
Refereed:Yes
Uncontrolled Keywords:security–development nexus; failed states; War on Terror; Human Security; radicalism; security; development
Subjects:Social Sciences > International relations
DCU Faculties and Centres:UNSPECIFIED
Publisher:Taylor & Francis
Official URL:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08039410.2014.889036
Copyright Information:© 2014 Taylor & Francis
Use License:This item is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License. View License
ID Code:21734
Deposited On:13 Mar 2017 17:04 by Thomas Murtagh . Last Modified 06 Nov 2019 16:15

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