[TimorLesteStudies] New Article: The Security-Development Nexus: Comparing External Interventions and Development Strategies in East Timor and Solomon Islands

[Bu Wilson]

  The Security-Development Nexus:  Comparing External Interventions and Development Strategies in East  Timor and Solomon Islands
Derek McDougall 
Asian  Security, 1555-2764, Volume 6, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 170 – 190
Abstract 
  The focus of this article is the relationship between security and  development in East Timor and Solomon Islands. External intervention  occurred in East Timor in 1999 and 2006, and in Solomon Islands in 2003.  Intervention was effective in restoring order in these situations in  the short term, but questions remained about long-term strategies for  achieving security. Although “development” is proposed as the best way  to attain security broadly defined, there are arguments about what  development should entail and who should determine its direction.  Development strategies giving greater attention to the local level and  to customary governance are more likely to achieve legitimacy than those  that focus on state-building alone, thus contributing to greater  security in the long term.  

Bu V.E. Wilson
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