Aid and authoritarianism in Africa : development without democracy / edited by Tobias Hagmann and Filip Reyntjens.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hagmann, Tobias, editor.

Reyntjens, Flip, editor.

Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, publisher.

Series:

Africa now (Zed Books)

Africa now

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economic assistance--Political aspects--Africa.

Economic assistance.

Economic assistance--Moral and ethical aspects.

Authoritarianism--Africa.

Authoritarianism.

Economic assistance--Political aspects.

Africa--Politics and government--1960-.

Africa.

Politics and government.

Physical Description:

186 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Uppsala, Sweden : Nordiska Afrikainstitutet ; London : Zed Books, [2016]

Summary:

In 2013 almost half of Africa's top aid recipients were ruled by authoritarian regimes. While the West may claim to promote democracy and human rights, in practice major bilateral and international donors, such as USAID, DFID, the World Bank and the European Commission, have seen their aid policies become ever more entangled with the survival of their authoritarian protégés. Local citizens thus find themselves at the receiving end of a compromise between aid agencies and government elites, in which development policies are shaped in the interests of maintaining the status quo. Aid and Authoritarianism in Africa sheds light on the political intricacies and moral dilemmas raised by the relationship between foreign aid and autocratic rule in Africa. Through contributions by leading experts exploring the revival of authoritarian development politics in Ethiopia, Uganda, Rwanda, Cameroon, Mozambique and Angola, the book exposes shifting donor interests and rhetoric as well as the impact of foreign aid on military assistance, rural development, electoral processes and domestic politics. In the process, it raises an urgent and too often neglected question: to what extent are foreign aid programmes actually perpetuating authoritarian rule? Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Discourses of democracy, practices of autocracy: shifting meanings of democracy in the aid-authoritarianism nexus / Rita Abrahamsen Abrahamsen, Rita 21

2 Aid to Rwanda: unstoppable rock, immovable post / Zoë Marriage Marriage, Zoë 44

3 Authoritarianism and the securitization of development in Uganda / David M. Anderson Anderson, David M., Jonathan Fisher Fisher, Jonathan 67

4 Ethiopia and international aid: development between high modernism and exceptional measures / Emanuele Fantini Fantini, Emanuele, Luca Puddu Puddu, Luca 91

5 Donors and the making of 'credible' elections in Cameroon / Marie-Emmanuelle Pommerolle Pommerolle, Marie-Emmanuelle 119

6 Foreign aid and political settlements: contrasting the Mozambican and Angolan cases / Helena Pérez Niño Niño, Helena Pérez, Philippe Le Billon Billon, Philippe Le 139.

ISBN:

1783606282

9781783606283

9781783606290

1783606290

OCLC:

928778322