A Vision for Britain’s New Role in African Development and Security
Oct 2006, Vol. 151, No. 5
By Gideon Mailer
What is needed from Britain is not some general notion of aid before governance, but a reorientation of foreign policy principles in order to allow governance to support aid.
Raw aid without due pressure on African governance may provide anything but the mutual consensus between competing actors that provides true national stability.
Gideon Mailer is a PhD candidate in History at St. John's College, University of Cambridge. His principal research interest relates to the Atlantic world, and the place of the African littoral in its development. He is a junior supervisor in American history, and chairman of Cambridge UNICEF. This article was a runner-up in the 2006 Nelson Mandela Essay Competition on African Security and Development.
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By Gideon Mailer
What is needed from Britain is not some general notion of aid before governance, but a reorientation of foreign policy principles in order to allow governance to support aid.
Raw aid without due pressure on African governance may provide anything but the mutual consensus between competing actors that provides true national stability.
Gideon Mailer is a PhD candidate in History at St. John's College, University of Cambridge. His principal research interest relates to the Atlantic world, and the place of the African littoral in its development. He is a junior supervisor in American history, and chairman of Cambridge UNICEF. This article was a runner-up in the 2006 Nelson Mandela Essay Competition on African Security and Development.
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