Aid Relations and State Reforms in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

The Politics of Mutual Accommodation and Administrative Neglect
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-0-367-59015-4
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 218 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 342 g

Reihe: African Governance

Since 2001 The Democratic Republic of Congo has been engaged in a three-fold transition process towards liberalisation, democratisation, and peace. Throughout this process, external actors (donors, international financial institutions, the UN system, aid agencies) have played a leading role, effectively setting the orientations and modalities of this transition, including their institutional dimension. Congolese actors have not been passively subjected to this process, however, but have potently shaped it in various ways. This book investigates the relationship between international aid partners and various Congolese actors since 2001. It examines this relationship as an aspect of the state reform process, with particular reference to the administration.

Stylianos Moshonas argues that the pace and nature of reform has been compromised by the contradictions inherent within the process itself, as advocated by international partners, and by the ability of Congolese power holders to accommodate and co-opt such reforms in line with their own political strategies. Rather than framing aid relations as the outcome of the oppositional points of view of donors and Congolese actors, this book presents a systematic focus on the compromises and accommodative characteristics that aid politics have coalesced around, as well as the contradictory positions donors have found themselves in.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Moshonas, Stylianos

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Historische & Regionale Volkskunde
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

List of abbreviations

Introduction

Chapter 1. Framing Congo's aid relations

Chapter 2. The DRC and its foreign partners since donor re-engagement

Chapter 3. Politics and administration in Congo-Zaire in historical perspective

Chapter 4. The politics of administrative reform (2001-2011)

Chapter 5. Looking beyond reform failure in aid relations

Conclusion

Postscript: Aid relations and state reforms in Congo, 2011-2017

Über Autor(innen)

Dr. Stylianos Moshonas is a Post-doctoral researcher at the Institute for Development Policy and Management (IOB), University of Anwerp, Belgium.