A 'positive' (analytical-descriptive) approach to the study of the peace-development relationship is con trasted to a value-oriented (normative) one. It is argued that both approaches are fruitful and that much can be gained from reconciling the two rather than making a too strong distinction...

This paper discusses security and development issues in Europe's recent history and immediate future. The issue is how the security system affects the pattern of economic development and, conversely, the long-run effects of development on security. To understand this relationship a longer...

Assuming a close relationship between peace and development, this paper analyses a succession of schools of thought in development forming part of three distinct, historically contextualized development and security discourses: the industrialization imperative in the emerging state-system in...

The politics of the succession of military coups d'état in Ghana represent an illuminating case of militarization processes in an underdeveloped society. The paper shows that the main reasons why Nkrumah's 'anti-imperialist' regime fell (1966) were to be found in the inner dynamics of Ghanaian...

Björn Hettne asks whether a more genuine development thinking is on its way back after three decades dominated by globalism: the ideology of market-led globalization as the only path to global welfare. It is argued that the global crisis has been a catalyst for discursive change, but since real...