Reconstructing Iraq: merging discourses of security and development

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dc.contributorVirginia Techen
dc.contributor.authorSovacool, Benjamin K.en
dc.contributor.authorHalfon, Saul E.en
dc.date.accessed2014-07-15en
dc.date.accessioned2014-07-21T15:49:45Zen
dc.date.available2014-07-21T15:49:45Zen
dc.date.issued2007-04en
dc.description.abstractThis article argues that reconstruction is an emerging discourse of international politics that merges security and development discourses in powerful and troubling ways. We focus on Iraq as a site for articulating and institutionalising a particular version of reconstruction, uncovering five narratives that constitute Iraqi reconstruction discourse. We conclude by suggesting that reconstruction repackages security and development into a singular, technical, and bureaucratic worldview. This view obscures working and reliable solutions to poverty and instability by treating development as a central justification for war, and war as a promising way to develop a state and society.en
dc.identifier.citationBenjamin Sovacool; Saul Halfon, "Reconstructing Iraq: merging discourses of security and development," Review of International Studies, 33, pp 223-243, 2007. doi:10.1017/S0260210507007486en
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1017/s0260210507007486en
dc.identifier.issn0260-2105en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/49660en
dc.identifier.urlhttp://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=1035588&fulltextType=RA&fileId=S0260210507007486en
dc.language.isoen_USen
dc.publisherCambridge University Pressen
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectinternational relationsen
dc.titleReconstructing Iraq: merging discourses of security and developmenten
dc.title.serialReview of International Studiesen
dc.typeArticle - Refereeden

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