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Policy Coherence for Development and Securitisation: competing paradigms or stabilising North–South hierarchies?

2013; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 34; Issue: 5 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1080/01436597.2013.800752

1360-2241

Nancy Thède,

Global Security and Public Health

Abstract Abstract Often treated as separate paradigms, the security-development nexus and the aid effectiveness agenda are analysed here instead as a continuum of aid policy responses that attempt to stabilise power relations in a contested and unstable international arena These responses are informed by a common commitment by western donor governments to neoliberal logic since the early 1980s. The article focuses on the discourse of policy coherence for development promoted by the DAC (Development Assistance Committee) of the OECD (Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development), analysing it as the common vector of the two dimensions – effectiveness and security - of donor aid policy. By examining the emergence and transformations of the concept of coherence over the past two decades, it underlines the predominance of continuity over rupture in three successive phases of stabilisation (economic, political, security). 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