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Countering Violent Extremism: The Role Of Aid And Development Assistance Programs, Gregory L. Rose
Countering Violent Extremism: The Role Of Aid And Development Assistance Programs, Gregory L. Rose
Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)
The recent Strategic Insights paper Security through aid by Anthony Bergin and Sarah Hately on the use of aid and development assistance to enhance security gives attention to important but currently neglected opportunities to counter violent extremism. Those opportunities can be broadly conceptualised as positive and negative: positive building of resilience and negating the potential misuses of aid. In this post, I will focus on lessons to be learned from environmental management which could be applied to negating the misuse of aid and development assistance in a security context.
The Rise Of The Global South, The Imf And The Future Of Law And Development, Gabriel Garcia
The Rise Of The Global South, The Imf And The Future Of Law And Development, Gabriel Garcia
Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)
Following the onset of the Asian Financial Crisis the world has witnessed a re-accommodation of the global financial system. In the particular case of middle-income countries they have disentangled themselves from the conditionality of the IMF and grown into more assertive actors in international forums, proposing new alternative mechanisms to become more financially independent and for the provision of development assistance. This article critically reviews the new reality by assessing the strategies deployed by developing countries to reduce the IMF's influence, and explores the potential consequences of the rise of middle-income nations for Law and Development.