Stephen Brown
Associate Professor. School of Political Studies. University of Ottawa.
Professeur agrégé. École d'études politiques. Université d'Ottawa.
Brown, Stephen, ed. Struggling for Effectiveness: CIDA and Canadian Foreign Aid. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2012 (in press), 360 pp. Includes the following chapters:
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Stephen. “Canadian Aid Enters the Twenty-First Century”, pp. 3-23.
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Stephen. “CIDA’s New Partnership with Canadian NGOs: Modernizing for Greater Effectiveness?”, pp. 287-304.
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Stephen and Rosalind Raddatz. “Taking Stock, Looking Ahead”, pp. 327-43.
Brown, Stephen. “Transitional Justice as Subterfuge”, Canadian International Council website, May 9, 2012 • Republished on the website of the Centre for International Policy Studies, University of Ottawa, May 10, 2012.
Brown, Stephen with Chandra Lekha Sriram. “The Big Fish Won’t Fry Themselves: Criminal Accountability for Post-Election Violence in Kenya”. African Affairs, vol. 111, no. 443 (April 2012), pp. 244-60.
Sriram, Chandra Lekha and Stephen Brown. “Kenya in the Shadow of the ICC: Complementarity, Gravity and Impact”. International Criminal Law Review, vol. 12, no. 2 (2012), pp. 219-44.
Brown, Stephen. “National Development Agencies and Bilateral Foreign Aid”. In Paul A. Haslam, Jessica Schafer and Pierre Beaudet, eds. Introduction to International Development: Approaches, Actors, and Issues. Second Edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012, pp. 143-58 • Earlier version published in ibid., First Edition, 2008, pp. 135-51 • Published in French as « Les agences nationales de développement et l’aide bilatérale ». In Pierre Beaudet, Jessica Schafer et Paul Haslam (dir.). Introduction au développement international : approches, acteurs et enjeux. Ottawa, Presses de l’Université d’Ottawa, 2008, pp. 119-38.
Brown, Stephen. “Lessons Learned and Forgotten: The International Community and Electoral Conflict Management in Kenya”. In David Gillies, ed. Elections in Dangerous Places: Democracy and the Paradoxes of Peacebuilding. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2011, pp. 127-43.
Brown, Stephen and Ian Smillie. “CIDA: The Shape of Things to Come”, The Mark, September 29, 2011 • Previously published as “Expect CIDA minister, debate to have low profile – but watch behind the scenes”. Embassy, September 14, 2011, p. 15.
Brown, Stephen and John Sinclair. "Transparency and Canadian Foreign Aid". Huffington Post, August 1, 2011. Previously published in Embassy, July 27, 2011, p. 8.
Brown, Stephen. “‘Well, what can you expect?’: Donor officials’ apologetics for hybrid regimes in Africa”. Democratization, vol. 18, no. 2 (April 2011), pp. 512-34 • Also published in Gordon Crawford and Gabrielle Lynch, eds. Democratization in Africa: Challenges and Prospects. London: Routledge, 2012.
Brown, Stephen. « Justice pénale internationale et violences électorales : les enjeux de la CPI au Kenya ». Revue Tiers Monde, nº 205 (mars 2011), pp. 85-100.
Sriram, Chandra Lekha and Stephen Brown. “A Breakthrough in Justice? Accountability for Post-Election Violence in Kenya” Policy Paper. London: University of East London Centre on Human Rights in Conflict, August 2010 (7 pp.).
Brown, Stephen. “Politische Gewalt in Kenia und die Suche nach Verantwortlichkeit” [Political Violence in Kenya and the Quest for Accountability]. IMS--Internationales Magazin für Sicherheit, no. 3, October 2010, pp. 8-10.
Brown, Stephen. “Two Cheers for Kenya’s New Constitution”. Current Column, Bonn: German Development Institute, August 9, 2010 • Also published in Deutsche Welle online, August 9, 2010 • German version published as “Ein Hoch auf Kenias neue Verfassung”, Zeit Online, August 13, 2010.
Brown, Stephen. “Aid Effectiveness, Mom and Apple Pie”. CIC Commentary. Toronto: Canadian International Council, April 22, 2010 • Also published in slightly different form as “Make Aid Effective, Put Recipients First”. The Mark, July 29, 2010.
Brown, Stephen. “Donor Responses to the 2008 Kenyan Crisis: Finally Getting it Right?” Journal of Contemporary African Studies, vol. 27, no. 3 (July 2009), pp. 389-406 • Also published in Peter Kagwanja and Roger Southall, eds. Kenya’s Uncertain Democracy: The Electoral Crisis of 2008. London: Routledge, 2010, pp. 129-146.
Brown, Stephen. “CIDA under attack (from its own minister)”. The Mark, June 23, 2009.
Brown, Stephen. “Dilemmas of Self-Representation and Conduct in the Field”. In Chandra Lekha Sriram, John C. King, Julie A. Mertus, Olga Martín-Ortega and Johanna Herman, eds. Surviving Field Research: Working in Violent and Difficult Situations. New York and London: Routledge, 2009, pp. 213-26.
Brown, Stephen and Marie-Joëlle Zahar. “Committing to Peace: Soft Guarantees and Alternative Approaches to Power Sharing in Angola and Mozambique”. Journal of Peacebuilding and Development, vol. 4, no. 2 (2008), pp. 75-88.
Brown, Stephen. “Putting Foreign Aid Back on the Agenda”. Embassy, October 16, 2008, p. 17.
Baines, Erin, Stephen Brown and Susan Thomson. “Inside Rwanda’s gender revolution”, The Guardian Online, October 13, 2008.
Brown, Stephen, Chandra Lekha Sriram and Marie-Joëlle Zahar. “For Zimbabwe, talking is no cure”, The Guardian Online, August 20, 2008.
Brown, Stephen and Bill Morton. “Reforming aid and development cooperation: Accra, Doha and beyond”, Policy Note, Ottawa: North-South Institute, August 2008, 8 pp. (also available in French).
Brown, Stephen and Chandra Lekha Sriram. “China’s Role in Human Rights Abuses in Africa: Clarifying Issues of Culpability”. In Robert I. Rotberg, ed. China into Africa: Trade, Aid, and Influence. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2008, pp. 250-71.
Brown, Stephen. « L’aide publique canadienne à l’Afrique : vers un nouvel âge d’or ? ». In François Audet, Marie-Eve Desrosiers et Stéphane Roussel (dir.). L’aide canadienne au développement. Montréal, Presses de l’Université de Montréal, 2008, pp. 267-90.
Brown, Stephen. “Transitions from Personal Dictatorships: Democratization and the Legacy of the Past in Malawi”. In Shadrack Wanjala Nasong’o, ed. The African Search for Stable Forms of Statehood: Essays in Political Criticism. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 2008, pp. 187-227.
Brown, Stephen. “CIDA under the Gun”. In Jean Daudelin and Daniel Schwanen, eds. Canada Among Nations 2007: What Room to Manoeuvre? Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2008, pp. 91-107.
Brown, Stephen and Paul Kaiser. “Democratisations in Africa: Attempts, Hindrances and Prospects”. Third World Quarterly, vol. 28, no. 6 (September 2007), pp. 1131-49 • Also appears in slightly different form in Jose V. Ciprut, ed. Democratizations: Comparisons, Confrontations, and Contrasts. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2009, pp. 233-58.
Brown, Stephen. « Le Rapport du Sénat sur l’aide canadienne à l’Afrique : une analyse à rejeter ». Le Multilatéral, vol. 1, nº 3 (juillet/août 2007), pp. 1, 6-7.
Brown, Stephen. “‘Creating the world’s best development agency’? Confusion and Contradictions in CIDA’s New Policy Blueprint”. Canadian Journal of Development Studies, vol. 28, no. 2 (June 2007), pp. 213-28 • Published in French as « “Devenir le meilleur organisme de développement au monde” ? Confusion et contradictions dans les nouvelles orientations de l’Agence canadienne de développement international ». In Dimitrios Karmis et Linda Cardinal (dir.). Les politiques publiques au Canada : Pouvoir, conflits et idéologie. Québec, Presses de l’Université Laval, 2009, pp. 327-47.
Brown, Stephen. “From Demiurge to Midwife: Changing Donor Roles in Kenya’s Democratisation Process”. In Godwin Rapando Murunga and Shadrack Wanjala Nasong’o, eds. Kenya: The Struggle for Democracy. London: Zed Books, 2007, pp. 301-29.
Brown, Stephen. “Achieving the Development Objectives of Canada’s International Policy Statement”. McGill International Review, vol. 6, no. 1 (Fall 2005), pp. 52-55.
Brown, Stephen. “Foreign Aid and Democracy Promotion: Lessons from Africa”. European Journal of Development Research, vol. 17, no. 2 (June 2005), pp. 179-98.
Brown, Stephen. “‘Born-Again Politicians Hijacked Our Revolution!’: Reassessing Malawi’s Transition to Democracy”. Canadian Journal of African Studies, vol. 38, no. 3 (2004), pp. 705-22.
Brown, Stephen. “Theorising Kenya’s Protracted Transition to Democracy”. Journal of Contemporary African Studies, vol. 22, no. 3 (September 2004), pp. 325-42.
Brown, Stephen. “Deteriorating Human Security in Kenya: Domestic, Regional and Global Dimensions”. In J. Andrew Grant and Fredrik Söderbaum, eds. The New Regionalism in Africa. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2003, pp. 93-109.
Brown, Stephen. “Quiet Diplomacy and Recurring ‘Ethnic Clashes’ in Kenya”. In Chandra Lekha Sriram and Karin Wermester, eds. From Promise to Practice: Strengthening UN Capacities for the Prevention of Violent Conflict. Boulder: Lynne Rienner, 2003, pp. 69-100.
Brown, Stephen. “‘Con discriminación y represión, no hay democracia’: The Lesbian and Gay Movement in Argentina”. Latin American Perspectives, vol. 29, no. 2 (March 2002), pp. 119-38. • An abridged version is available in Javier Corrales and Mario Pecheny, eds. The Politics of Sexuality in Latin America: A Reader on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Rights. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2010, pp. 86-101.
Brown, Stephen. “Authoritarian leaders and multiparty elections in Africa: how foreign donors help to keep Kenya’s Daniel arap Moi in power”. Third World Quarterly, vol. 22, no. 5 (October 2001), pp. 725-39.
Brown, Stephen. “Malawi: The Trouble with Democracy”. Southern Africa Report, vol. 15, no. 4 (November 2000), pp. 19-23.