This special Alumni edition of the IDS Bulletin explores selected aspects of the relationship between globalisation, security and development. The topic addresses growing concerns about the negative effects of globalisation on the worlds poor, in particular the way in which poverty undermines human security and contributes to conflict in the developing world and the emerging markets of the former Communist world (Annan 2000; DFID 2000). Globalisation has become one of the most written about conceptsin recent times and has been widely used to explain the causes and effects of most aspects of life at the turn of the century (Hutton and Giddens 2000; Held et al. 1999; Hirst and Thompson 1996; Kofman and Youngs 1996; Ohamae 1995; Guehenno 1995; Giddens 1990). While open to different interpretations, globalisation captures a description of the widening and deepening of economic, political, social and cultural interdependence and interconnectedness.
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