The Security-Development nexus: expressions of sovereignty and securitization in Southern Africa

Amid the hype surrounding the 9/11 tragedy, much attention was given to the linkage between security and development.little noticed was the fact that this linkage is by no means a recent invention.rather, this nexus was an important element in the state policies of colonial as well as post-colonial regimes during the Cold war, and it seems to have re-emerged in new configurations during the present wave of democratic transitions.The purpose of this book is to situate and explore the nexus between security and development in a variety of contexts from South Africa, Mozambique, and Namibia, to Zimbabwe and the Democratic republic of Congo.The book explores the nexus and our understanding of security and development through the prism of peace-keeping interventions, community policing, human rights, gender, land contests, squatters, nation and state-building, social movements, disarmament, demobilisation, repatriation (DDr) programmes and the different trajectories democratisation has taken in different parts of southern Africa.At a generic level, this volume draws our attention to the ways in which linkages are changing between "hard", militarised forms of power related to the production of sovereignty, and apparently benign, "soft" forms of power related to the enlightenment agenda of human progress and betterment.Consequently, we hope that the book will also be of interest to scholars working outside the region of southern Africa and that the approach in the book will spur debate and research on the nexus between security and development more generally.we would like to thank the Danish Social Science research Council for its support of a research network and a series of workshops that have played an important role in the development of our thoughts on and approaches to the security-development nexus.The research network, From Inequality to