ABSTRACT

It has long been the concern of scholars like Chandler (2008), Duffield (2001), and Sorensen (2002) that Liberal security discourses addressing security in the global South have concealed an agenda directed towards the securing of societies in the global North. Such scholars have identified the so-called ‘Security-Development Nexus’ as an early casualty of such co-option, whereby ‘development’ as a concept is rendered less for the social prosperity of people in the South and more for the security of people in the North. Development, then, has been hijacked.