IN the early 1990s, international aid agencies recognized the link between security and development. Simply put, there is no development without security and no security without development.
During the Cold War, the United States and other Western allies funded developing states with military assistance to fight off communism. However, the money funneled to these regimes was used to suppress freedoms and violate human rights. State security became an apparatus to prolong autocrats in power while Western security assistance did not redound to the people's social and economic development.
