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Foreign Aid
Scholarly Publications
Repression and Foreign Aid in Autocracies: Exploiting Debt Relief Negotiations in Post-Cold War Africa
February 2016
AbstractDoes dependence on development aid from Western sources constrain the use of repression among autocrats?
Beyond Aid: A Conceptual Perspective on the Transformation of Development Cooperation [Dec. 2014]
December 2014
AuthorsHeiner JanusResearcher, Bi- and Multilateral Development Policy Department, German Development Institute Stephan KlingebielHead, Bi- and Multilateral Development Policy Department, German...
Multiple Principals, Multiple Agents: EU and US Democracy Assistance in Sub-Saharan Africa [Dec. 2014]
December 2014
AuthorKaren Del BiondoPostdoctoral Scholar at CDDRL, 2012-2013;Postdoctoral Fellow, KFG Transformative Power of Europe,Free University of Berlin, 2013-2014AbstractThis paper investigates under...
Other Publications
Luxury or Priority? Ethiopia Wants a Light Rail
February 2019
The Ethiopian government is planning on constructing the country’s first light rail in its capital city Addis Ababa.
The Bahamas' Baha Mar: Rescuing the Mega-Resort from Bankruptcy
September 2017
Back in the early 2000s, the Bahamian government had a burning problem to solve — the nation’s plunging GDP. By the end of 2001, its real GDP growth had receded from 5% (in 2000) to 1.5%.
News
Stanford scholars: Lessons learned from the Afghanistan War
May 2013
With the Taliban now open to peace talks, a political end to the war in Afghanistan appears in sight.
Five foreign policy questions for Obama and Romney
October 2012
With the third and final debate between President Obama and Mitt Romney set to focus on foreign policy, researchers from the Freeman Spogli Institute ask the questions they want answered and...
Stanford study shows no evidence that international health aid is wasted
May 2012
In June 2012, Stanford researchers Rajaie Batniji and Eran Bendavid retracted the research findings explained in the following article.
Events
U.S.-China Rivalry and the Origins of Taiwan's Developmental State
October 1, 2017
Abstract Scholars have credited a model of state-led capitalism called the developmental state with producing the first wave of the East Asian economic miracle.
Accidental State: Chiang Kai-shek, the United States, and the Making of Taiwan
September 26, 2016
AbstractThe existence of two Chinese states—one controlling mainland China, the other controlling the island of Taiwan—is often understood as a seemingly inevitable outcome of the Chinese civil war...
Syria today, Syria tomorrow: Politics, security, and society
November 18, 2015
Abstract:The Syrian crisis continues to grind on without a viable settlement to the conflict in sight.
Multimedia
The Paradoxes of Political Aid in the Arab World
May 2015
AbstractEuropean and US-based scholars and practitioners have debated the purposes and sometimes the (limited) macro-effects of programs designed to promote transitions from authoritarianism to democracy in Middle East countries.
State-Strengthening in Afghanistan 2001-2014
March 2015
The Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law (CDDRL), in partnership with Chatham House and the United States Institute of Peace (USIP), recently held a conference on state-strengthening in Afghanistan.
People
Ertharin Cousin Payne Distinguished Lecturer at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies Distinguished Fellow at the Center on Food Security and the Environment, Distinguished Fellow at the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law