Aid and authoritarianism in Africa: Development without democracy
本书探讨1990年以来西方援助机构与非洲威权政府的关系，分析援助动机及其对政治治理的影响，通过安哥拉等六国案例研究，批判西方发展援助的政治逻辑。
Tobias Hagmann and Filip Reyntjens have edited a short volume on the relationship between western donor agencies and authoritarian African governments since 1990. The book opens with a helpful summary of the editors’ main concerns, which include the motives underpinning western aid to such states, and the possible impacts of this support on their politics and governance. The main body of the book comprises five stimulating case studies from across the continent, exploring these themes as they relate to Angola, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Mozambique, Rwanda and Uganda. The case studies are topped and tailed with a pair of more analytical chapters. These chapters provide general historical perspectives on the discourse and practice of development aid to Africa since the cold war – as it relates to governance and democracy. The book adds to a large and growing literature on these subjects – including non-academic sources - and makes a significant contribution by drawing together of voices and views that have consistently critiqued the politics of western development assistance in recent years. Beyond its specific focus on western aid to illiberal African states, the book is an interesting adjunct to the much broader literature on the current crisis of liberal internationalism - and what the authors term ‘the restoration and acceptance of authoritarianism’ (p.6).