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020 _a0415588596 (hardcover)
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082 _a303.66
_bWAR 2011
245 0 0 _aWar, peace and progress in the 21st century :
_bdevelopment, violence and insecurity /
_cMark T. Berger, Heloise Weber.
250 _a1st ed.
260 _a[S.l.] :
_bRoutledge,
_c2010.
300 _a296 p. ;
_c25 cm.
490 1 _aThirdworlds.
520 _aThe history of development is one marked by insecurities, violence, and persistent conflict. It is not surprising, therefore, that development is now thought of as one of the central challenges of world politics. However, its complexities are often overlooked in scholarly analysis and among policy practitioners, who tend to adopt a technocratic approach to the crisis of development and violence. This book brings together a wide range of contributions aimed at investigating different aspects of the history of development and violence, and its implications for contemporary efforts to consolidate the development-security nexus. From environmental concerns, through vigilante citizenship, to the legacies of armed conflicts during and after decolonization, the different chapters reconstruct the contradictory history of development and critically engage contemporary responses and their implications for social and political analyses. In examining violence and insecurity in relation to core organising principles of world politics the contributors engage the problems associated with the nation state and the inter-state system and underlying assumptions of the promises of progress. The book offers a range of perspectives on the contradictions of development, and on how domination, violence and resistance have been conceived. At the same time it exemplifies the relevance of alternative methodological and conceptual approaches to contemporary challenges of development. This book was published as a special issue of Third World Quarterly .
700 1 _aBerger, Mark T.
700 1 _aWeber, Heloise.
830 0 _aThirdworlds.
856 4 0 _3Amazon.com
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