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SUMMARY:The Disastrous and Politically Debased Subject of Resilience - Jul
 ian Reid (KCL)
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CONTACT:O W Lewis
DESCRIPTION:In recent years development and security have come to be conce
 ived in the words of the former British Secretary of State for Internation
 al Development\, Hilary Benn\, as something of a ‘shared challenge’. D
 evelopment is said to make ‘a critical contribution to global security b
 y reducing poverty\, inequality and the root causes of conflict’ while 
 ‘global prosperity\, everyone’s prosperity\, depends on security again
 st threats to human development’. ‘The truth is’\, as Benn declared 
 in a now classic speech\, that ‘development without security is not poss
 ible\; security without development is only temporary’.  At least three 
 different axioms can be found embedded in Benn’s formulation of the inte
 rrelation between development and security\; what is now referred to in In
 ternational Relations as the ‘development-security nexus’. Firstly\, t
 he development of the developing world is now said to depend on its securi
 ty\; security is conceived as a prerequisite of development. Secondly\, de
 velopment of the developing world is conceptualised itself as a means towa
 rds the security of developing societies\; security conceived also\, there
 fore\, as the end towards which development is aimed. And thirdly no secur
 ity of the developed world is said to be possible without increasing the d
 evelopment of undeveloped states and societies\; thus the ultimate subject
  of both development and security is not the developing world at all\, but
  the developed. This trinity of axioms underlies not just British developm
 ent policy\, but those of most western national governments as well as int
 ernational organizations concerned with development\, significantly the Un
 ited Nations\, as well as a wide range of NGOs\, and their academic proxie
 s. […] While the development-security nexus would appear to be becoming 
 only more tightly woven in international relations\, semantic shifts in th
 e conceptualisation of both development and security are occurring. Demand
 s for development are increasingly tied not simply to demands for ‘secur
 ity’ but to a discursively new object of ‘resilience’.
LOCATION:17 mill lane\, 1st floor\, Senior Common Room\, Centre of Interna
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