The Securitization of Foreign Aid

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xix

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2. Security, Development and the Securitization of Foreign Aid

   • Stephen Brown, Jörn Grävingholt

   Pages 1-17

3. The Militarization of United States Foreign Aid

   • Joanna Spear

   Pages 18-41

4. The UK’s Approach to Linking Development and Security: Assessing Policy and Practice

   • Leni Wild, Samir Elhawary

   Pages 42-63

5. The Securitization of Aid: The Case of France

   • Philippe Marchesin

   Pages 64-84

6. Peacebuilding and the ‘Human Securitization’ of Japan’s Foreign Aid

   • Pedro Amakasu Raposo Carvalho, David M. Potter

   Pages 85-112

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

   • Stephen Brown

   Pages 113-137

8. The European Union’s Development Policy: A Balancing Act between ‘A More Comprehensive Approach’ and Creeping Securitization

   • Mark Furness, Stefan Gänzle

   Pages 138-162

9. Provincial Reconstruction Teams in Afghanistan: Securitizing Aid through Developmentalizing the Military

   • Jaroslav Petřík

   Pages 163-187

10. Space for Gender Equality in the Security and Development Agenda? Insights from Three Donors

    • Liam Swiss

    Pages 188-211

11. The Securitization of Climate Change: A Developmental Perspective

    • Katie Peters, Leigh Mayhew

    Pages 212-236

12. The Securitization of Foreign Aid: Trends, Explanations and Prospects

    • Stephen Brown, Jörn Grävingholt, Rosalind Raddatz

    Pages 237-255

13. Back Matter

    Pages 256-267

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Security concerns increasingly influence foreign aid: how Western countries give aid, to whom and why. With contributions from experts in the field, this book examines the impact of security issues on six of the world's largest aid donors, as well as on key crosscutting issues such as gender equality and climate change.

• Foreign aid
• development cooperation
• securitization
• development
• security
• Development Cooperation
• Europe
• European Union (EU)
• gender
• Policy
• development aid

• University of Ottawa, Canada

  Stephen Brown

• German Development Institute, Germany

  Jörn Grävingholt

Pedro Amakasu Raposo Carvalho, Lusíada University, Portugal. Samir Elhawary, United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), Egypt. Mark Furness, German Development Institute, Germany. Stefan Gänzle, University of Agder, Norway. Philippe Marchesin, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France. Leigh Mayhew, Independent Researcher, UK. Katie Peters, Overseas Development Institute, UK. Jaroslav Pet?ík, People in Need, Czech Republic. David M. Potter, Nanzan University, Japan. Rosalind Raddatz, University of Ottawa, Canada. Joanna Spear, George Washington University, United States. Liam Swiss, Memorial University, Canada. Leni Wild, Overseas Development Institute, UK.

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