Blair's Commission for Africa: Problems and prospects for UK policy

Political Quarterly

Volumn 76, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 529-539

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DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-923X.2005.00715.x     Document Type: Review

References (33)

1. Brendan Carlin, 'Geldof condemns Africa aid 'disgrace'", Daily Telegraph, 17 May 2005.
2. Patrick Wintour, 'We've got the script, now let's make the film', Guardian, 12 March 2005.
3. The UK Government and Africa in 2005: How Joined Up Is Whitehall?, Report of the Africa All Party Parliamentary Group, March 2005.
4. 'Executive Director's Report', Annual Report 2004/2005, Royal African Society, Avocette Ltd, 2005, p. 2.
5. Cited in Martin Plaut, 'Blair and Africa: the Africa Commission', Review of African Political Economy, vol. 31, no. 102, 2004, p. 706.
6. 'Let them eat words', Financial Times, 12-13 March 2005.
7. 'Africa: the next step is action', Guardian, 12 March 2005.
8. 'Great Expectations', The Times, 12 March 2005.
9. Zia Öniş and Fikret Şnses, 'Rethinking the emerging Post-Washington Consensus', Development and Change, vol. 36, no. 2, 2005, pp. 263-90.
10. Bayart's The State in Africa, Longman, 1993;
11. Chabal's Power in Africa, Macmillan, 1992
12. and with J-P. Daloz, Africa Works, James Currey, 1999;
13. Clapham's Africa and the International System, Cambridge University Press, 1996;
14. Herbst's States and Power in Africa, Princeton University Press, 2000;
15. Reno's Corruption and State Politics in Sierra Leone, Cambridge University Press, 1995
16. and Warlord Politics in African States, Lynne Rienner, 1998;
17. and van de Walle's African Economies and the Politics of Permanent Crisis, 1979-1999, Cambridge University Press, 2001.
18. Christopher Clapham, 'Introduction', International Affairs, vol. 81, no. 2, 2005, p. 277.
19. Wintour, 'We've got the script'.
20. For an overview of the Labour government's Africa policies see Rita Abrahamsen and Paul Williams, 'Ethics and foreign policy: the antinomies of New Labour's 'Third Way' in sub-Saharan Africa', Political Studies, vol. 49, no. 2, 2001, pp. 249-64.
21. Paul Cammack, 'The political economy of the Commission for Africa', unpublished paper, 2005.
22. For the problems of ostensible critics/ reformers adopting the agenda of the powerful see Steve Smith, 'Power and truth: a reply to William Wallace', Review of International Studies, vol. 27, no. 4, 1997, pp. 507-16.
23. Cited in Christopher Adams and David White, 'Blair launches Africa report', Financial Times, 12-13 March 2005.
24. See 'Britain/Africa: the big push comes to shove', Africa Confidential, vol. 46, no. 10, 13 May 2005, pp. 1-2.
25. For a critique of the UK government's approach see Ian Taylor, '"Advice is judged by results not by intentions": why Gordon Brown is wrong about Africa', International Affairs, vol. 81, no. 2, 2005, pp. 299-310.
26. Figures calculated from DFID's web-site accessed March 2004.
27. The UK Government and Africa in 2005, p. 13.
28. 'Britain/Africa', p. 1.
29. The UK Government and Africa in 2005, pp. 14-15.
30. Richard Dowden, 'Cynical politicians, pipedreamsm - and how we can make a difference', Independent, 1 June 2005.
31. Michael Peel, 'G8 and Africa: good, bad and ugly', The World Today, vol. 61, no. 6 (June 2005), p. 10.
32. See Ian Taylor and Paul Williams, 'The Limits of engagement: British foreign policy and the crisis in Zimbabwe', International Affairs, vol. 78, no. 3, 2002, pp. 547-65.
33. Richard Dowden, 'Clare Short', Prospect, May 2002, p. 44.