Aid and Authoritarianism in Africa

Tobias Hagmann is associate professor of international development at Roskilde University, a research associate with the Political Geography Chair at the University of Zurich in Switzerland and a fellow with the Rift Valley Institute in Nairobi and London.Filip Reyntjens is professor of African law and politics at the Institute of Development Policy and Management, University of Antwerp. He is a full member of the Belgian Royal Academy of Overseas Sciences and a board member of several scientific organizations.

• Introduction: Aid and Authoritarianism in Sub-Saharan Africa after 1990 - Tobias Hagmann and Filip Reyntjens1. Discourses of Democracy, Practices of Autocracy: Shifting Meanings of Democracy in the Aid-Authoritarianism Nexus - Rita Abrahamsen2. Aid to Rwanda: Unstoppable Rock, Immovable Post - Zoë Marriage3. Authoritarianism and the Securitization of Development in Uganda - David M. Anderson and Jonathan Fisher4. Ethiopia and International Aid: Development Between High Modernism and Exceptional Measures - Emanuele Fantini and Luca Puddu5. Donors and the Making of 'Credible' Elections in Cameroon - Marie-Emmanuelle Pommerolle6. Foreign Aid and Political Settlements: Contrasting the Mozambican and Angolan Cases - Helena Pérez Niño and Philippe Le BillonConclusion: Democracy Fatigue and the Ghost of Modernization Theory - Nicolas van de Walle

Provides welcome relief from an academic literature which often treats official development assistance (ODA) in apolitical terms.