Trump’s Aid Cuts
I was interviewed for this piece at Ricochet Media on foreign aid a year after Trump’s elimination of USAID and the massive cuts to American ODA.
Foreign Aid
Securitization and Violence Against Aid Workers
Dr. Heather Dicks and I have a new article available via open access in STABILITY: International Journal of Security and Development. The article is “Aid Securitization and Violence Against Aid Workers”. Here’s the abstract: Abstract: Recent decades have witnessed a shift in development practice whereby donors increasingly provide aid to support security-related programming in the … Read more
USAID?
The targeting of USAID by the Trump/Musk Administration has been garnering a lot of attention (rightly so) and I have been sharing my thoughts on it with a number of media outlets. Here are a few stories that include some of my thoughts on the tragedy that is unfolding. The Hill Times (2025/02/12): The Kyiv … Read more
Violence Against Aid Workers
Heather Dicks (PhD Candidate, Memorial Sociology) and I have contributed a post on our ongoing research on the relationship of aid securitization and violence against aid and humanitarian workers to the new MUN-based academic blog Population and Security. Read the original post here: The post has also been translated and re-published on the UQAM-based Institut … Read more
Foreign Aid & Decoupling?
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