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This paper examines the validity of the concern within the development community that development cooperation portfolio resources (Official Development Assistance) could be and are being reallocated in favour of investments of particular relevance to security policy. Changes in the EU's approach are illustrative of a general tendency in the international community to now consider security as a pre-condition for development. The EU has consistently discussed integrating new issues of migration, terrorism and security in its policy papers, evident in the new EU Strategy for Africa and the revised Cotonou Agreement between the EU and the African, Caribbean and Pacific states. In the name of stability and security, however, aid can rapidly end up being driven by the security interests of the donor rather than by the development interests of the recipient.