أمننة التنمية في إفريقيا
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2021
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Université de M'sila
Abstract
The Securitization theory has emerged as a conceptual framework suitable for understanding
and interpreting the authoritarian regimes, which make attempts to dominate its people
by using language tools and speech actions to bring the exceptional state that authorizes
for them imposing several non-democratic procedures. This theory permits with all its different
ramifications to change the African continent's development reality by obstructing
the international development aid efforts and directing and transferring them to military
and security sectors. Many international official actors are involved in this systematic stealing
of efforts, such as the Western governments (donors) and different international financial
institutions, in addition to African regimes and governments, which contributed to
shaping a considerable harmony among all parties which used double securitization in a
mixture of total securitization and local securitization.
This thesis endeavors to monitor and explain the process of transferring development aid
in African countries from its original paths towards the military and security sectors based
on the discourse of securitization, through which it tried to justify its behavior under the
pretext of combating international terrorism and organized crime in an explicit attempt to
cover up many of the hidden motives and agendas associated with ensuring its economic
interests concerning international actors, and the search for an exceptional state that would
allow Western governments to remain in power away from the costs of democratic governance.
This process has had a very negative impact on the path of faltering development in the
African continent, especially at the level of financing and creating the appropriate economic
mobility to achieve the desired African renaissance, and also led to deepening the
state of underdevelopment experienced by most of the countries of the continent, and consolidating
more dependence in one of the most dangerous forms of neo-colonialism , especially
at the economic level, not to mention the protection and encouragement of authoritarian
regimes, which prompted us to try to develop a new conception of de-Securitization
based primarily on the literature of the Copenhagen School of Security Studies, it depends
on the facts of the African reality, especially in the post-securitization stage, during which
we aim to reconsider the African development project, which we tried to draw a set of
different options in front of its realization, such as reconsidering the mechanisms of financial
support, and neutralizing them from all different political calculations, or trying to
search for New partners within the club of emerging international powers, especially those
that express their desire to cooperate, such as China, India and Turkey, or be satisfied with
the option of independent development with all the meanings of self-reliance and joint
internal cooperation.
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securitization, development, Africa, state of exception, underdevelopment, dependency, tyranny