Virginia TechSovacool, Benjamin K.Halfon, Saul E.2014-07-212014-07-212007-04Benjamin Sovacool; Saul Halfon, "Reconstructing Iraq: merging discourses of security and development," Review of International Studies, 33, pp 223-243, 2007. doi:10.1017/S02602105070074860260-2105http://hdl.handle.net/10919/49660This 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-USIn Copyrightinternational relationsArticle - Refereedhttp://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=1035588&fulltextType=RA&fileId=S0260210507007486https://doi.org/10.1017/s0260210507007486