The UK’s Approach to Linking Development and Security: Assessing Policy and Practice

Wild, Leni; Elhawary, Samir

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“…Долгосрочная деятельность по содействию развитию в таких странах представлялась рискованной и неэффективной, и эти страны неизбежно оказывались «сиротами с точки зрения международной помощи» (aid orphans). Только ближе к концу указанного десятилетия, после того как события в Руанде и Югославии заставили пересмотреть используемые подходы, помощь нестабильным государствам и предотвращение конфликтов стали рассматриваться в качестве приоритетных направлений содействия развитию 405 .…”

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The soft power of the United Kingdom

Kharitonova¹

2018

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Москва ИМЭМО РАН 2018 УДК 327.8(410) ББК 66.4(4Вел) Харитон 207 Серия «Библиотека Национального исследовательского института мировой экономики и международных отношений имени Е.М. Примакова» Рецензенты: член-корреспондент РАН, доктор политических наук И.С. Семененко кандидат исторических наук Н.В. Юдин

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The soft power of the United Kingdom

Kharitonova¹

2018

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“…This brought into sharp relief the question of how to deliver education in conflict affected and fragile states, with some of the largest numbers of girls out of school, but where the conventional notion of a public funding body or stable government was not tenable. (Wild and Elhawary, 2016). Thirdly, considerable achievements in enrolling and supporting girls through school being reported by NGOs, like Camfed, which focused on local, rather than national networking, suggested that much could be achieved by sidestepping the sometimes hostile attitudes within central government and working with local communities, political and religious leaders to build support for girls' schooling (Ansell, 2002;Sutherland-Addy, 2002).…”

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A Review of public private partnerships around girls' education in developing countries: flicking gender equality on and off

Unterhalter¹

2017

J. int. comp. soc. policy

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The article reviews the literature on Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) and policy on girls’ schooling in developing countries. It considers the ways in which aims around gender equality and women's rights are positioned in policy texts concerned with girls’ education PPPs. The argument made is that these documents exemplify an oscillation, using a multipolar register, between pragmatic initiatives that recognise existing sites of power, and attempts to develop a political project that dissolves differences between public and private constituencies, who share an interest in getting girls into school. The potential and limits of this approach to support integrated policy around rights and equalities is considered using the case of DFID's Girls’ Education Challenge. An analytical framework is sketched that maps a political and epistemological process termed dispersal, which is used to consider some ways to investigate the effects of PPPs as a mechanism to address intersecting inequalities.

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“…There is disagreement amongst commentators over whether the DfID has maintained a poverty focus or whether it has shifted to addressing security concerns albeit in a more subtle way than the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). Whilst some argue that the DfID has maintained a firm stance on poverty alleviation over security concerns (Beall, Goodfellow, & Putzel, 2006;Fitz-Gerald, 2006;Wild & Elhawary, 2012;Youngs, 2007), still others claim that UK's development policy has become securitised and is geared towards protecting the West from the dangers caused by the underdevelopment of non-Western states (Abrahamsen, 2004(Abrahamsen, , 2005Carmody, 2011;Duffield & Waddell, 2006). Although some of the literature in this area addresses these issues in relation to isolated UK's policy documents (Noxolo, 2012;Pugh, Gabay, & William, 2013;Ritchie, 2011), none of these arguments draw from a systematic, empirical analysis of UK's development and security policy documents over an extended period.…”

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Security for All, Development for Some? The Incorporation of Security in Uk's Development Policy

McConnon

2014

J of Intl Development

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This paper builds on existing research on the merging of development and security following 9/11. Whilst much of the current literature focuses on the development policy of the US, this paper examines the UK. Investigating arguments that the UK's coordination of security and development policy is concerned with security at home rather than in the developing world, the policy discourse of the UK's Department for International Development (DfID), Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) and Ministry of Defence (MoD) is examined through its major policy documents for the period from the late 1990s to 2011. Two levels of analysis are used; a content analysis and a discourse analysis. In addition, this research draws on interviews with key informants within DfID. This paper argues that since 9/11 and the War on Terror, the UK has increasingly coordinated its foreign policy, development and security actors. As a result, DfID has given progressively greater attention to issues of national security in its policy discourse. This action is justified through a series of claims of common interest between actors across government and between the interests of developing countries and the UK. This merging of interests opens up space for development to be focused on ensuring UK national security. Whilst drawing on a paradigm of broader security, this instead reverses the principal of human security where national security is now a development problem.

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The UK’s Approach to Linking Development and Security: Assessing Policy and Practice

Cited by 4 publications

References 5 publications

The soft power of the United Kingdom

The soft power of the United Kingdom

A Review of public private partnerships around girls' education in developing countries: flicking gender equality on and off

Security for All, Development for Some? The Incorporation of Security in Uk's Development Policy

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