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Reconstructing Iraq: merging discourses of security and development
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posted on 2023-06-08, 23:17 authored by Benjamin SovacoolBenjamin Sovacool, Saul HalfonThis 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.
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- Published
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Review of International StudiesISSN
0260-2105Publisher
Cambridge University PressExternal DOI
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2Volume
33Page range
223-243Department affiliated with
- SPRU - Science Policy Research Unit Publications
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2015-12-02Usage metrics
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