Front cover -- critique influence change -- About the author -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations -- Foreword -- Preface to the critique influence change edition -- 1. Introduction: The New Development-Security Terrain -- From a capitalist to a liberal world system -- The ambivalence of Southern exclusion -- The internationalisation of public policy -- Liberal peace -- The new wars -- The merging of development and security -- The organisation of this book -- Notes -- 2. The Merging of Development and Security -- The demise of alternatives to liberal governance -- From inclusion to underdevelopment becoming dangerous -- New imperialism or liberal peace? -- The reproblematisation of security -- The radicalisation of development -- Concluding remarks -- Note -- 3. Strategic Complexes and Global Governance -- The qualification of nation-state competence -- Liberal strategic complexes -- Non-governmental organisations -- Military establishments -- The commercial sector -- Multilateral and regional organisations -- Donor governments -- Consensus and governance networks -- Notes -- 4. The New Humanitarianism -- Requiem for the prophets -- From cosmic machines to living systems -- The politicisation of development discourse -- The demise of operational neutrality -- The rise of consequentialist ethics -- Ethics and humanitarian conditionality -- Politics as policy -- Linking relief and development as a governance relation -- Deepening the relations of liberal governance -- Concluding remarks -- Note -- 5. Global Governance and the Causes of Conflict -- New barbarism and biocultural determination -- Underdevelopment as dangerous -- Conflict and the reinvention of development -- Poverty and conflict -- The poor as allies of liberal peace -- The delegitimation of leadership -- Notes.

6. The Growth of Transborder Shadow Economies -- Social regression or social transformation? -- The limits of the formal economy -- Non-formal economies -- A complex transborder shadow economy: the coffee trade across Sudan's war zone -- Non-liberal characteristics of non-formal economies -- Revisiting underdevelopment as dangerous -- Notes -- 7. Non-Liberal Political Complexes and the New Wars -- Complex political emergencies or emerging political complexes? -- From nation states to multiple authorities -- The privatisation of protection -- Protection and authority among state incumbents -- The new wars as network war -- Note -- 8. Internal Displacement and the New Humanitarianism: Displacement and Complicity in Sudan (Part 1) -- A note on the political economy of Northern Sudan -- Development discourse and internal displacement -- Wealth ranking and natural economy -- De-ethnicisation and self-management -- Internal displacement as economic migration -- Rights-based development and consequentialist ethics -- Protection and self-management -- Minimum operational standards and complexity -- Notes -- 9. Aid and Social Subjugation: Displacement and Complicity in Sudan (Part 2) -- Advantages to dominant networks -- Cheap and desocialised labour -- Representation, debt and clientage -- Looting and asset realisation -- Institutional advantages -- Dependency revisited -- Aid policy and complexity -- Concluding remarks: peace and the reinvention of development -- Notes -- 10. Conclusion: Global Governance, Moral Responsibility and Complexity - Internal Displacement and the New Humanitarianism -- A cosmopolitan politics? -- Rediscovering research as a moral force -- Organisational reform and complexity -- Note -- Bibliography -- Index -- Back cover.