Securitization of Foreign Aid
This book-making project brought together scholars from North America and Europe to reflect upon the effects which the increased consideration of security concerns has had on development policies in major European and North American donor countries. The aim was to produce an edited volume or journal special issue on the theme.
Project Team:
Jörn Grävingholt
Stephen Brown, University of Ottawa
Time frame:
2009 - 2012
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completed
Project description
While in recent years the factual interdependence of security and development has been well established in the academic literature, there is little examination of the effects of the recent security emphasis on the system of foreign aid itself - nor, for that matter, of the theoretically possible (civilizing?) effects of the development discourse on security policies.
Against this background, this project concentrated on the effect of the increased consideration of security concerns on donor development policies in both its allocation and programming dimensions (i.e., how much and to whom aid is disbursed for which sectors and what types of activities). At the same time, by considering questions of donor policy coherence, it also examined to what extent security policies themselves were altered by their “infection” with development concerns.