Vores sikkerhed og verdens udvikling. Sikkerhed, bistand og begrebsforandring mellem Danmark og FN

Resumé

Our Security and Global Development: Security, Aid, and Conceptual Change between Denmark and the United Nations

This article investigates the diffusion and translation of the so-called ‘security-development nexus’ and its forerunners in Denmark. In doing so, it calls for a conceptual and transnational perspective in investigating national adaptations of global concepts and agendas and vice versa. Through a focus on changing political concepts, this article argues that a more thorough understanding of the transnational and entangled dynamics of both national and global policy change may be reached. Illustratively, it is found that Danish security/development discourse and practice was driven by the previously unrecognized interlinkages and confluences between a (changing) national policy ‘tradition’ and a long-term pattern of conceptual change within the UN and other international institutions.