1st Edition

The Struggle for Influence in the Middle East The Arab Uprisings and Foreign Assistance

Edited By Federica Bicchi, Benoit Challand, Steven Heydemann Copyright 2016
192 Pages
by Routledge

192 Pages
by Routledge

192 Pages
by Routledge

This collection of research papers explores the impact of the Arab uprisings on the politics and political economy of foreign aid provision in the MENA region. Contributions focus on the foreign assistance policies and strategies of key donors (United States, Europe, Gulf countries and Turkey), and on the relationship between donors and recipients of foreign aid in a select set of MENA cases... Read more

Foreword  Michelle Pace

1. Revisiting Aid in the Arab Middle East  Benoit Challand

2. America’s Response to the Arab Uprisings: US Foreign Assistance in an Era of Ambivalence  Steven Heydemann

3. The Politics of Foreign Aid and the European Neighbourhood Policy Post-Arab Spring: ‘More for More’ or Less of the Same?  Federica Bicchi

4. Turkey as an ‘Emerging Donor’ and the Arab Uprisings  Meliha Benli Altunişik

5. EU Democracy Promotion in Tunisia and Morocco: Between Contextual Changes and Structural Continuity  Leila Mouhib

6. Foreign Aid and Security Sector Reform in Tunisia: Resistance and Autonomy of the Security Forces  Moncef Kartas

7. International Assistance to Egypt after the 2011 and 2013 Uprisings: More Politics and Less Development  Khaled Amin

8. Explaining the Patterns of the Gulf Monarchies’ Assistance after the Arab Uprisings  Sally Khalifa Isaac

9. Unwilling to Change, Determined to Fail: Donor Aid in Occupied Palestine in the aftermath of the Arab Uprisings  Jeremy Wildeman and Alaa Tartir

10. Conclusion: Continuities and Discontinuities in Foreign Assistance  Steven Heydemann

11. Post-scriptum: Foreign Aid at the Time of Humanitarian Intervention  Mattia Toaldo

Biography

Federica Bicchi is Associate Professor at the Department of International Relations, London School of Economics, UK.

Benoit Challand is Assistant Professor at New York University, USA.

Steven Heydemann is Vice President on Applied Research on Conflict at the US Institute of Peace. He is also adjunct professor at the Department of Government, Georgetown University, USA.