Developmentality and the World Bank in the New Aid Architecture

There are ample reasons to contemplate why the president of the World Bank, Robert Zoellick, posed this question in opening his address to the International Institute for Strategic Studies. His friendly and reflective tone are indicative of the enlargement of the security-development nexus that now binds these institutions together and thus merges two traditionally separate realms. The policy world and international society are conventionally understood as compartmentalized into, respectively, security and hard power, on the one side, and soft power and development, on the other. The expanding security-development nexus enables, for example, a development rationale being used to legitimize military