Since 9/11 ideas of security have focused in part on the development of
ungovernable spaces. Important debates are now being had over the
nature, impacts, and outcomes of the numerous policy statements made by
northern governments, NGOs, and international institutions that view the
merging of security with development as both unproblematic and
progressive. This volume addresses this new security-development nexus
and investigates internal institutional logics, as well as the operation
of policy, its dangers, resistances and complicity with other local and
national social processes. Drawing on detailed ethnography, the
contributors offer new vantage points to understand the workings of
multiple, intersecting, and conflicting power structures, which whilst
local, are tied to non-local systems and operate across time. This
volume is a necessary critique and extension of key themes integral to
the security- development nexus debate, highlighting the importance of a
situated and substantive understanding of human security*.*