Posted by The Ethiopia Observatory (TEO)
by Sara Jerving, Devex
Proposed cuts to foreign aid in the United States budget have some experts wondering whether the military will play a greater role in responding to humanitarian crises on the African continent.
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The US military could take a stronger role in stabilizing African nations. Does it want to?
27 JulCase studies: Authoritarianism and the securitization of development in Africa – Chad, Ethiopia, Rwanda and Uganda
30 JanBy Keffyalew Gebremedhin – The Ethiopia Observatory (TEO)
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“For those who hoped to see the strengthening of human rights in Africa, with increasing governmental accountability and transparency, and with more inclusive and participatory forms of politics, this [situation – African resistance, erosion of Western dominance and the securitization of development] would not be good news.”
– Jonathan Fisher and David M. Anderson, Authoritarianism and the securitization of development in Africa
New hypotheses and fresh arguments have been coming for a long time now to explain what has been shaping the post-Cold War relations between Western donor states on one hand and aid recipient African states and – to an extent – Eastern European governments on the other.
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