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 dangerousNew 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 discourseThe 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 EconomiesSocial 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

Note8. 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