BJ RN HETTNE is Professor Emeritus of Peace and Development Research at the School of Global Studies, Goteborg University, Sweden. He is also the editor of Human Values and Global Governance.

'This volume contains a number of wide-ranging, and often brilliant, essays that range over the complex contemporary interaction between development, security and culture. It will change the way you think about some of these issues.' - Professor Tony Payne, Department of Politics, University of Sheffield, UK.

• Foreword; D.Brändström & F.Lundmark Preface: Development, Security and Culture; B.Hettne Introduction; B.Hettne Development Discourses in History; B.Hettne Reinventing Europe: A Cosmopolitan Vision; U.Beck The Precarious Sustainability of Democracy in Latin America; O.Sunkel Towards a New School of Thought on Development in South Asia; P.Wignaraja Environmental Load Displacement in World History; A.Hornborg Child Malnutrition. From the Global Protein Crisis to a Violation of Human Rights; U.Jonsson Culture and Human Rights: It is the 'How' and not the 'Why' and 'What'; T.Obaid Words as Moral Badges: A Flow of Buzzwords in Development Aid; G.Dahl Civil Society, Faith-Based Organisations and Development in the Arab World; S.Eddin Ibrahim The Cultural Dimension of Gender in Education; P.Mlama Environmental Load Displacement in World History; A.Hornborg Reinventing Europe. A Cosmopolitan Vision; U.Beck Islam and Cosmopolitanism; J.N.Pieterse Place and Voice in the Global Age; E.Rodriguez Larreta Conclusion; B.Hettne