Effectiveness of Security-Development Linkage: A Case Study of Bara Industrial Corridor, Nepal

Abstract

This thesis is a descriptive research investigates the link between security and development. It examines how this security-development linkage has influenced the interrelated significance of security and development. The thesis questions three main areas of interest related to security and development focusing on interdependence and analyses of present priority as an agenda; the relationship of policy implementation and institutional capabilities; and the analysis of role of intervening factors and external environment on ‘Security-development Linkage’ as an output. The thesis argues that the linkage between security and development is under-theorized in Nepalese context, and the originality of this research is to investigate the link between security policy implementation and its effect on development based on an analysis of literature on principal agent theory, security-development nexus and implementation theory approaches. Further, the case study of Bara Industrial Corridor highlights the link between security and development is depend on a vision of security policy linked to the state’s security agencies and its governance capacity.