Trojan Horses?: USAID, counterterrorism and Africa's police / Alice Hills
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Third World Quarterly Vol.27, No. 4, 2006, pp.629-643 (101)Summary: "The Bush administration has broadened the remit of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) in such a way as to make it a quasi-security agency." This paper argues that the reintroduction of practices previously used in the Cold War is deeply flawed; instead of supporting democracy and good governance they could undermine these objectives by politicising the police and curtailing political and economic freedoms.
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"The Bush administration has broadened the remit of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) in such a way as to make it a quasi-security agency." This paper argues that the reintroduction of practices previously used in the Cold War is deeply flawed; instead of supporting democracy and good governance they could undermine these objectives by politicising the police and curtailing political and economic freedoms.
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