ABSTRACT Drawing on international political sociology, this article shows how the merger of development and security has become part of the ideational architecture that facilitates a new ‘feel-good’ militarism in Africa. Contemporary international reform efforts are designed to restrain military power in the name of development, democracy and civilian oversight, but also to strengthen the coercive capacities of African security institutions and make them more efficient in the global fight against violent extremism. Such defensive development efforts have implications for the historically problematic relationship of the African state with modern forms of organised force, reconfiguring and recalibrating relations and dynamics between the state, military forces and external actors. The article concludes that defensive development is fraught with combative contradictions and risks becoming the handmaiden not only of increased militaristic violence, but also of oppression and the restriction of freedom and democracy.

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防御性发展，战斗性矛盾：走向非洲全球军国主义的国际政治社会学

摘要本文以国际政治社会学为基础，展示了发展与安全的融合如何成为观念体系的一部分，这种思想体系促进了非洲新的“感觉良好”的军国主义。当代的国际改革努力旨在以发展，民主和平民监督的名义限制军事力量，还旨在加强非洲安全机构的强制能力，并使它们在全球反暴力极端主义斗争中更有效率。这种防御性的发展努力对非洲国家与现代形式的有组织力量的历史上存在问题的关系产生了影响，重新构造和重新调整了国家，军队与外部参与者之间的关系和动力。