The interdependence between development and security: a follow up & an incitement., by Mariana Alves da Cunha Kalil 14/12/2012 POR EQUIPE DE COLABORADORES 0 COMMENTS 13 Votes In the 1990’s, International Relations Theory grew to comprise manifold objects and subjects that would beforehand be left aside as minor variables of researches (BUZAN, 1997). Nonetheless, the concepts that gained the spotlight sometimes led to traditional dynamics – suffice it to underscore the recent use of Responsibility to Protect (r2p) in the scope of a selective and not-so-democratic Security Council Resolution on Libya (EVANS, 2012). Human Security underpins r2p and indeed expands the traditional concept of International Security (KENKEL, 2008). However, the proposition advanced by Canada in 1996 was not enough to guarantee new practices among the international community. The question of how to actually broaden the concept of security to an extent that changes the system and the behavior of the actors is one that ought to be urgently addressed. In the 1990’s and in the dawn of the 21 st century, Peacebuilding and the Brahimi perspective were the bases for the approach regarding development and security in the international arena. Under the auspices of the Holy Trinity of Peacekeeping, security was deemed State Security and, hence, non intervention and sovereignty (KENKEL, 2012). Notwithstanding, the Westphalian binomial collapsed in the face of such tragedies as Rwanda and Yugoslavia. At that time, it seemed paramount to relativize State Security to protect what was considered the primary subject of security: the people (BUZAN, 1997). Human Security appeared, thus, in a context in which it was to be implemented at the cost of State Security. If anarchy translated into actual lack of hierarchy in the Council that holds the liability to address matters of peace and security, this would be undisputedly successful. Nevertheless, recent events in Libya and Syria show that power politics still prevail. Therefore, in order to construct an expanded concept of International Security that does reflect the urgencies of sustainable peace, the interdependence between security and development must be taken in to account (KALIL, 2012b). R2p, in its turn, treats matters of development on its pillar that concerns the responsibility to reconstruct – what appears rather relevant to Peacebuilding operations. Moreover, the interdependence between