Review article
https://doi.org/10.37458/nstf.23.3.3
The securitisation of development in Africa: causes, mechanism, and consequences
Hichem Derradji
Ali Madouni
Abstract
This study aims to highlight the significant role played by the escalating security policies in obstructing development efforts in the African continent, despite the tremendous financial support of international donor institutions with the aim of advancing development in the continent; the process of imparting security to the internal scene in these countries remained for decades diverting all those allocated budgets towards the sectors of militarisation, armament and security, by using a discourse that carries within its core all forms of existential threat, such as promoting the threat of international terrorism, which allows these countries to use exceptional methods in dealing with such dangers, while ensuring the international approval of the donors involved in these policies by virtue of the advantages they benefit from that are related to the other side of the hidden agenda of the process of securitisation of development, which provides them with a guarantee of the continuation of their economic interests.
Keywords
Securitisation, Armaments, Militarization, devel-opment, Africa
Hrčak ID:
290639
URI
Publication date:
2.11.2022.
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