ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the shifts in the understanding, usage and implementation of the concepts of ‘security’ and ‘defence’ since the advent of the 1980s. It examines how these changing concepts are reflected in the discourse on security and defence in southern Africa. The chapter investigates some of the principal debates about security and defence in southern Africa and analyses the literature on the concepts of security and defence in southern Africa. It discusses the relationship between security and defence, and how the evolving concept of security has affected the concept of defence. The chapter also explores the changing discourse on security and defence in southern Africa. It looks at how the changing concepts of security and defence have become embedded in the southern African discourse. The chapter describes more closely particular themes and debates that the changing concepts of security and defence have given rise to, and their relevance for the emerging discourse on security and defence in southern Africa.
