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Global Development and Human Security explores the possibility of connecting all countries to the global economy while defusing the social tensions and managing the security risks that can result from exposure to a turbulent international system. The complex intersection between security and development policies has not been adequately mapped or explored. Frail and failing states that lack sound market and security institutions are the weak links in an interconnected global system. Yet aid allocation principles discourage engagement with these difficult partners, and the insular culture of development assistance hinders interaction with the security community. In a world beset by problems without passport (infectious diseases, environmental pollution, international crime, conflict spillovers, terrorism, etc.), a new paradigm should supplant the now obsolete development consensus. The authors took stock of current development practices through the prism of Sweden's Shared Responsibility bill, which addresses peace, security, opportunity, environmental conservation, human rights, and democracy.

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Robert Picciotto is a visiting professor at King's College, London and formerly served as vice president and director general of evaluation at the World Bank. He has over forty years of development experience in Latin America and the Caribbean, the Middle East, North Africa, and Asia. Michael Clarke, director of the International Policy Institute, King's College, London, lectures at the Royal College of Defense Studies and the new Joint Staff College. Funmi Olonisakin is director of the Conflict, Security and Development Group at King's College, London and a senior lecturer and coordinator at the Centre for Defense Studies.

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