Handbook of international security and development / edited by Paul Jackson

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jackson, Paul, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economic development--International cooperation.

Economic development.

Security, International.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (490 pages)

Place of Publication:

Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Handbook of International Security and Development provides a survey of current thinking within the field of security and development. With a wide range of chapters that offer a guide to the core approaches, methods and issues, this book explores the links between the two and includes contributions from both practitioners and academics. With topics ranging from the politics of aid by remote control through to intervention and the re-establishment of security and demobilisation of combatants, this Handbook provides a comprehensive introduction to the literature and approaches used in the fi

Contents:

Cover; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Preface; 1. Introduction: security and development; PART 1 THE LINK BETWEEN SECURITY AND DEVELOPMENT; 2. On the nature of disagreements regarding the causes of civil war; 3. The securitization of development; 4. Untangling the gendering of the security-development nexus; 5. Human security and security sector reform: mutually reinforcing approaches towards people-centred security provision; 6. The digital development-security nexus: linking cyber-humanitarianism and drone warfare; 7. State building, neocolonialism and neotrusteeships

PART 2 SECURITY SECTOR REFORM8. Security sector reform as a manifestation of the security-development nexus? Towards building SSR theory; 9. Operationalizing the security-development nexus: security sector reform and its implications; 10. The rise and fall of security sector reform in development; 11. Transitioning from first to second generation security sector reform in conflict-affected countries; 12. Security sector reform and liberal state building; 13. When security and development meet: security sector reform in Sierra Leone

14. The African Union security sector reform and governance: challenges for African peace and developmentPART 3 LOCAL OWNERSHIP AND ACTORS AND COMMUNITY POLICING; 15. Ownership: from policy to practice; 16. Local actors in security and justice programming; 17. Community policing in rural Mozambique and Sierra Leone; 18. Building on what works: local actors and service delivery in fragile situations; 19. Policing at the local level; PART 4 CONTEMPORARY ISSUES AND APPROACHES; 20. Stabilizing fragile states; 21. Hybridity and simultaneity in the Global South

22. Corruption and post-conflict reconstruction23. Responsibility to Protect; 24. Hybrid human rights; 25. Military forces in contemporary development; 26. Lessons from peace processes: the case of Nepal; 27. Disarmament, demobilization and reintegration (DDR) of ex-combatants and development with a specific reference to the reintegration of the Taliban in Afghanistan; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781781955536 (electronic book)

1-78195-553-0

9781781955536