Securitizing Development through Military Intervention?

Abstract

Jessica Piombo’s edited collection, The US Military in Africa: Enhancing Security and Development, examines the US Department of Defence’s (DoD) shift from traditional to non-traditional role that blends security, governance and development in sub-Saharan Africa. The book shows this shift and examines the nexus in the context of the hegemonic discourse that the world will be a secure place if poor countries and fragile states got the opportunity to develop (Stern & Öjendal 2010). This nexus brought governance into the paradigm of securitization of development since attention to the multiple layers of governance, where security laws are made and brokered, is vital in the quest for development (Luckhamand Kirk 2013).