Trojan Horses?: USAID, counterterrorism and Africa's police /
Alice Hills
- 2006
"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.
UNITED STATES--FOREIGN AID--AFRICA UNITED STATES--WAR ON TERROR