The Securitization of Foreign Aid by Stephen Brown, Jörn Grävingholt

By Stephen Brown, Jörn Grävingholt

Protection matters more and more effect overseas relief: how Western international locations provide relief, to whom and why. With contributions from specialists within the box, this e-book examines the impression of protection matters on six of the world's greatest relief donors, in addition to on key crosscutting concerns corresponding to gender equality and weather swap.

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The aim was to ensure that the three activities worked in harmony to meet the key security challenge of combating the threat of terrorism (Bush 2002). This initiative required raising the status of development to match that of the other two legs of the triad. These efforts were a response to the widely held perception that in US government efforts, the whole was less than the sum of the parts. 1 Efforts to improve inter-agency coordination played out in the field in the promulgation of provincial reconstruction teams (PRTs) in Afghanistan and Iraq, and in the stepped-up efforts to provide qualified personnel from the civilian agencies to work in these as they were military-dominated (McNerney 2005: 32–46).

He explains the differences by the prevalence of three factors: greater policy coherence between gender and security concerns, greater 14 Security, Development and the Securitization of Foreign Aid resources allocated specifically to gender issues and greater involvement of civil society actors. In Chapter 10, Katie Peters and Leigh Mayhew examine the impact that the climate change debate has had on the securitization of foreign aid, building on the example of the UK as a bilateral aid provider.

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