Development, Security and Unending War: Governing the World of PeoplesISBN: 978-0-7456-3579-8
Hardcover
280 pages
December 2007, Polity
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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.