Donors, Democracy and Development in Africa
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Donors, Democracy and Development in Africa

Western Aid and Political Repression

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Donors, Democracy and Development in Africa

Western Aid and Political Repression

About this book

Uganda, Ethiopia and Rwanda have figured prominently in the post- Cold War relations between Western donors and Sub-Saharan Africa. Their 'new leaders' were embraced by Western countries as the antithesis of former Cold War-era African strongmen, and their countries became 'donor darlings', benefitting from regular and significant inflows of Western development assistance. To the dismay of African democracy activists and human rights defenders, such aid enabled the regimes in these countries to strengthen the repressive political and economic governance systems over which they preside.

Using a multi-disciplinary approach, this book examines the role of Western development assistance in supporting these authoritarian African regimes. It connects changing Western donor policies and priorities to developments within the three African countries, to the past of these ruling parties as armed liberation movements, to wider regional and global political, economic and strategic shifts, and highlights the skillful management by Kampala, Addis Ababa and Kigali of Western aid and international aid architecture to ensure regime preservation.

 

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Front Matter
  3. 1. Contexts Controversies and Commonalities
  4. 2. COVID-19 and Political Repression
  5. 3. Elements of Continuity: Promoting Democracy During the Cold War
  6. 4. Embracing the ‘New Leaders’
  7. 5. Bloody Legacies, Regime Hybridity and Donor Rationalisations
  8. 6. The Silences of International Development Frameworks and ‘Good Governance’
  9. 7. Democracy and Civil Rights: Securing Political Closure and Western Responses
  10. 8. Controlling Economic Liberalisation
  11. 9. Ambition, Authoritarianism, Participation and Decentralisation
  12. 10. Development Assistance and the West’s Changing Security Agenda
  13. 11. Western Security, Regime Security and the Fruits of Plunder
  14. 12. Working the Compacts: Western Aid and the Consolidation of Authoritarianism
  15. 13. The New Cold War: Competing for African Allies and the Place of Democracy Promotion
  16. Back Matter