Risk and the Security-Development Nexus : Palgrave Macmillan : 9783319982458 : 3319982451 : 12 Oct 2018 :  ?In this comprehensive and wide-ranging analysis, McConnon demonstrates the extent to which security concerns have come to pervade the development policies of the three major donor countries.' ?Rita Abrahamsen, University of Ottawa, Canada  ?An original and compelling analysis of the security-development nexus of three donor countries here combined with a closer look at how their policies play out in two recipient countries, Kenya and Ethiopia, which are actually more representative than the usual high-profile cases of Afghanistan and Iraq. McConnon's application of the risk-management lens is theoretically innovative and insightful. A most welcome contribution to the growing literature in this area.' ?Stephen Brown, University of Ottawa, Canada ?The argument that security has been brought in to mainstream development policy partly, but not solely, because of the War on Terror i