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FRIDE:
FUSING SECURITY AND DEVELOPMENT: JUST ANOTHER EURO-PLATITUDE? BY RICHARD YOUNGS:
02/12/2007 (MaximsNews Network)
UNITED NATIONS - / MaximsNews Network /
- 02
December 2007 -
Madrid
– This paper reveals that the EU has
made some modest progress towards according concrete substance to the
security-development link.
In particular, an
increased focus on supporting governance reforms acts as a potential link
between security and development objectives within several layers of European
policies. However, what the link means in practice is still contested.
Few in the EU would
doubt that security and development go together; but differences abound over
what this implies for the allocation of finite resources and the nature of
diplomatic engagements.
The EU still has no
clearly thought out vision of the balance or direction of causality between
these two policy goals, but rather an ad-hoc approach based on the rather easy
assumption that ‘all good things go together’.
Indeed, some basic
differences have emerged over where the boundary now lies between
‘development’ and ‘security’ policies. The evidence from European
policies suggests that development and security can be both complimentary and
oppositional.
A precarious balance,
and some tension, exists between the notion of security-informed development, on
the one hand, and development-mediated security, on the other hand.
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Richard Youngs is
Coordinator of the Democratisation programme at FRIDE. He also lectures at
the University of Warwick in the UK. Prior to joining FRIDE, he was EU Marie
Curie Research Fellow from 2001 to 2004.
He studied at
Cambridge (BA Hons) and Warwick (MA, PhD) universities, and previously worked as
Analyst at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, United Kingdom.
FRIDE
(Fundación para las Relaciones Internacionales y el Diálogo Exterior)
is a European think-tank based in Madrid that seeks to influence the policies
and actions of state and non-state actors in Europe and elsewhere, with regards
to peace and security, democratisation and human rights, and development and
humanitarian action, through applied research and informed debate based on the
values of justice and equality.
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para las Relaciones Internacionales y el Diálogo Exterior,
Richard
Youngs, Development,
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