Abstract

ESTEVES, Paulo  and  SOUZA, Letícia Carvalho de. Liberia and the construction of the security/development nexus. Rev. bras. polít. int. [online]. 2011, vol.54, n.2, pp. 22-45. ISSN 0034-7329.  http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S0034-73292011000200002.

The paper addresses the transformation of UN peacekeeping operations after the Cold War, based on the Liberian case. The aim is to show the consolidation of a nexus between security and development, which would be related to a process of normalization of international relations, informed by a liberal-democratic vocabulary.

Keywords : development; Liberia; security.