Skip to main content

and
  1. Article

    Open Access

    The Rise and Fall of the Aid Effectiveness Norm

    This article analyzes the rise and fall of the aid effectiveness norm, using the lens of Finnemore and Sikkink’s norm ‘life cycle’. I argue that, although donors and recipients endorsed the founding principles...

    Stephen Brown in The European Journal of Development Research (2020)

  2. No Access

    Book

  3. No Access

    Chapter

    The Securitization of Foreign Aid: Trends, Explanations and Prospects

    The terrorist attacks on the US in 2001 precipitated a new era of securitization of foreign aid. To differing extents, all of the country cases in this volume have increasingly linked their aid budgets with se...

    Stephen Brown, Jörn Grävingholt, Rosalind Raddatz in The Securitization of Foreign Aid (2016)

  4. No Access

    Chapter

    From Ottawa to Kandahar and Back: The Securitization of Canadian Foreign Aid

    Since the mid-2000s, national and international security has played an increasingly important role in Canadian foreign aid, as it did in other donor countries examined in this volume. The increased focus on se...

    Stephen Brown in The Securitization of Foreign Aid (2016)

  5. No Access

    Chapter

    Security, Development and the Securitization of Foreign Aid

    In recent years, the foreign aid industry has undergone an important shift. Whereas development workers until the late 1980s were mainly perceived — and often perceived themselves — as a rare species of intern...

    Stephen Brown, Jörn Grävingholt in The Securitization of Foreign Aid (2016)

  6. No Access

    Chapter

    Canada’s Fraying Commitment to Multilateral Development Cooperation

    Faced with the simultaneous challenges of financial, environmental, and food crises, as well as the growing power of Southern countries, the multilateral development system has not yet adapted to the emerging ...

    Stephen Brown, Michael Olender in Multilateral Development Cooperation in a … (2013)

  7. No Access

    Article

    Foreign Aid and Democracy Promotion: Lessons from Africa

    The disappointing results of international democratisation efforts are oftenattributed to domestic conditions that make it difficult for democracy to be established or survive. This paper recognises that the p...

    Stephen Brown in The European Journal of Development Research (2005)