My latest article has appeared in Third World Quarterly. Co-authored with my former graduate student, Princess Ilonze, the article is titled “Taking foreign aid and decoupling seriously: a framework for research” and is available at: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01436597.2021.1898279
The latest article from my Developing Conformity research project has been published in The Sociological Quarterly. Co-authored with Dr. Qian Wei, the article examines the relationship of bilateral foreign aid flows to human rights decoupling in aid-receiving countries. ABSTRACT Despite extensive literature examining human rights decoupling between treaty commitments and practices, little research has addressed … Read more
Andrew Dawson (York University, Glendon Campus) and I have published the latest article from the Developing Conformity project in the British Journal of Sociology. The article is available to all via open access. This article uses a World Society theory framework to test the effects of foreign aid on both the diffusion of rule of law reforms … Read more
My latest book review has just been published in the American Journal of Sociology. The book I reviewed is: Swidler, A., & Watkins, S. C. (2017). A Fraught Embrace: The Romance and Reality of AIDS Altruism in Africa: Princeton University Press. You can download the review here: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/696854
The first review of my book The Globalization of Foreign Aid: Developing Consensus has been published in the Canadian Journal of Development Studies by Brianna Scrimshaw Botchwey (University of Toronto). Really happy to see it! Read more here: https://doi.org/10.1080/02255189.2018.1453353