Overview

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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Author:   Mark Simpson
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   2024 ed.
ISBN:  

9783031749162

ISBN 10:   3031749162
Pages:   349
Publication Date:   08 December 2024
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Chapter 1. What happened with the West’s African donor darlings and its ‘new leaders’?.- Chapter 2. Elements of continuity: promoting democracy during the Cold War.- Chapter 3. The Embrace.- Chapter 4. The legacies of armed struggles, authoritarianism, ideology and division.- Chapter 5. Western donors and Africa’s ‘hybrid regimes’.- Chapter 6. Democracy and Civil Rights: securing political closure and Western responses.- Chapter 7. Controlling economic liberalisation.- Chapter 8.The cacophonies and silences of international development frameworks.- Chapter 9.The ‘good governance’ agenda, with democracy as a side order.- Chapter 10. Downplaying multi-party democracy - the Developmental State, Consultations, Participation and Decentralisation.- Chapter 11. Development assistance and the changing Westernsecurity agenda in Africa.- Chapter 12. African members of the ‘Coalition of the Willing'.- Chapter 13. Working the compacts: Western aid and the consolidation of authoritarianism.- Chapter 14. The New Cold War: competing for African allies and democracy promotion

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Mark Simpson is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London.

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