Brown, Stephen. “Global Frictions: Foreign Aid, Donor–Recipient Relations and LGBT+ Rights in Tanzania”. Journal of International Development. In press. DOI: 10.1002/jid.3978.
Brown, Stephen. “When development cooperation principles clash: Country ownership and LGBTQI+ inclusion in hostile environments“. Journal of International Development, vol. 36, no. 7 (2024), pp. 2790-2804.
Brown, Stephen. “Is this what a feminist policy looks like? Foreign aid under the Trudeau government”. In Katherine Scott, Laura Macdonald and Stuart Trew, eds. The Trudeau Record: Promise v. Performance. Toronto: James Lorimer & Company, 2024, pp. 280-290.
Brown, Stephen. “Foreign Aid in a Changing World”. In Emil Dauncey, Vandana Desai and Robert B. Potter, eds. The Companion to Development Studies. Fourth Edition. London: Routledge, 2024, pp. 328-332 • Earlier version published in Vandana Desai and Robert B. Potter, eds. The Companion to Development Studies. Third Edition. London: Routledge, 2014, pp. 539-542.
Brown, Stephen. “Visibility or impact? International efforts to defend LGBTQI+ rights in Africa”. Journal of Human Rights Practice, vol. 15, no. 2 (2023), pp. 506-522.
Brown, Stephen. “Mining self-interest? Canadian foreign aid and the extractive sector in Mongolia”. Canadian Journal of Development Studies, vol. 44, no. 4 (2023), pp. 645-664.
Brown, Stephen and Morgane Rosier. “COVID-19 vaccine apartheid and the failure of global cooperation”. British Journal of Politics and International Relations, vol. 25, no. 3 (2023), pp. 535-554.
Brown, Stephen and Morgane Rosier. “COVID-19 vaccines and global health diplomacy: Canada and France compared”. In Viktor Jakupec, Max Kelly and Michael de Percy, eds. COVID-19 and Foreign Aid: Nationalism and Global Development in a New World Order. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2023, pp. 222-245.
Brown, Stephen. “International Development Cooperation and LGBTQ+ Rights in Africa”. Blog post, EADI Debating Development Research Blog, May 9, 2023 • Reposted on the blog of the Centre for International Policy Studies, University of Ottawa, May 9, 2023 • Published in French as « Coopération internationale et droits des personnes LGBTQ+ en Afrique », Blogue Un seul monde, Institut d’études internationales de Montréal, Université du Québec à Montréal, May 29, 2023 • Published in Portuguese as “Cooperação Internacional para o Desenvolvimento e Direitos LGBTQ+ em África”, Oficina Global blog, June 14, 2023.
Brown, Stephen. “Foreign aid in 2022: More spending, but not much to celebrate”. Blog post, McLeod Group, April 17, 2023.
Brown, Stephen. “Promises made, promised broken: Foreign aid and Budget 2023”. Blog post, McLeod Group, March 29, 2023.
Brown, Stephen. “Canada and Mongolia – The Enhanced Development Partnership that Never Was”. Blog post, Mongolia Focus, March 21, 2023 • Reposted on the blog of the Centre for International Policy Studies, University of Ottawa, March 30, 2023.
Brown, Stephen. “Canada’s COVID-19 vaccine fix”. Canadian Foreign Policy Journal, vol. 28, no. 1 (2022), pp. 98-106.
Brown, Stephen and Gloria Novovic “The World According to Chrystia Freeland”. Blog post, McLeod Group, October 18, 2022 • Reposted on the blog of the Centre for International Policy Studies, University of Ottawa, October 20, 2022.
Brown, Stephen. “Budget 2022: What to expect from Canada’s international assistance” Blog post, McLeod Group, April 11, 2022 • Reposted on the blog of the Centre for International Policy Studies, University of Ottawa, April 12, 2022.
Munro, Lauchlan T. and Stephen Brown. “Obfuscation and ventriloquy: Does Canada speak for the world’s poor?” Blog post, McLeod Group, February 8, 2022 • Reposted on the blog of the Centre for International Policy Studies, University of Ottawa, February 9, 2022.
Brown, Stephen. “The impact of COVID-19 on development assistance”. International Journal, vol. 76, no. 1 (2021), pp. 42-54.
Brown, Stephen. “Going Viral: Development Assistance under the Trudeau Minority Government”. In David Carment and Richard Nimijean, eds. Political Turmoil in a Tumultuous World: Canada Among Nations 2020. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021, pp. 251-272.
Brown, Stephen. “National Development Agencies and Bilateral Aid”. In Paul A. Haslam, Jessica Schafer and Pierre Beaudet, eds. Introduction to International Development: Approaches, Actors, Issues, and Practice. Fourth Edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021, pp. 150-167 • French version published as « Les grandes tendances de l’aide bilatérale ». In Pierre Beaudet, Paul Haslam, Dominique Caouette et Abdelhamid Benhmade (dir.). Enjeux et défis du développement international : Acteurs et champs d’action, édition nouvelle et actualisée. Ottawa, Presses de l’Université d’Ottawa, 2019, pp. 223-231.
Suter, Christian, Stephen Brown, Dolgion Aldar and Tamir Chultemsuren, eds. Democratic Struggles in Challenging Times: Insights from Mongolia and Around the World. Ulaanbaatar: World Society Foundation and Independent Research Institute of Mongolia, 2021, 209 pages • Mongolian version: Эмхэтгэсэн Кристиан Сүтэр, Стевен Броун, Алдарын Долгион, Чүлтэмсүрэнгийн Тамир. Ардчиллын тэмцэл сорилтын жилүүдэд: Монгол ба Дэлхийн улс орнууд туршлагажиж эхэлсэн нь. Ulaanbaatar: World Society Foundation and Independent Research Institute of Mongolia, 2022, 230 pages. Volume includes the following chapter:
- Brown, Stephen. “Studying Democracy in Challenging Times”, pp. 1-7 • Mongolian version: Стевен Броун. “Ээдрээтэй он жилүүдэд ардчиллыг судлах нь”, pp. 1-8.
Brown, Stephen. “The Revolving Doors at Global Affairs Canada”. Blog post, McLeod Group, October 28, 2021.
Brown, Stephen. “Foreign Aid and the 2021 Federal Elections”. Blog post, Centre for International Policy Studies, University of Ottawa, September 14, 2021.
Brown, Stephen. “Covid vaccine apartheid and the failure of global cooperation”. Blog post, The Loop, European Consortium for Political Research, August 31, 2021 • Reposted on the blog of the Centre for International Policy Studies, University of Ottawa, September 6, 2021 • Published in French as « COVID-19 : Apartheid vaccinal et échec de la coopération internationale », Blogue Un seul monde, Institut d’études internationales de Montréal, Université du Québec à Montréal, September 13, 2021.
Brown, Stephen. “Canada and global vaccine equity: timid, late and insufficient”. Blog post, McLeod Group, July 15, 2021 • Reposted on the blog of the Centre for International Policy Studies, University of Ottawa, July 15, 2021.
Brown, Stephen. “Federal budget 2021: foreign aid”, Open Canada, Canadian International Council, April 28, 2021 • Reposted on the McLeod Group blog, April 29, 2021 • Published in French as « Budget fédéral 2021 : aide au développement », Open Canada, Canadian International Council, April 29, 2021 • Reposted in both languages on the blog of the Centre for International Policy Studies, University of Ottawa, May 3, 2021.
Rosier, Morgane and Stephen Brown. “The Federal Budget and Canadian Foreign Policy”. Blog post, McLeod Group, April 26, 2021.
Brown, Stephen. “The impact of COVID-19 on foreign aid”. Blog post, Development Policy Centre, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, April 1, 2021 • Reposted on the blog of the Centre for International Policy Studies, University of Ottawa, April 1, 2021 • Published in the Pacific Island Times, Guam, April 1, 2021, in the Island Times, Palau, April 2, 2021, in the Solomon Times, Solomon Islands, April 6, 2021, the Post-Courier, Papua New Guinea, April 6, 2021, and in the St. Vincent Times, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, June 1, 2022 • Published in French as « L’impact de la COVID-19 sur l’aide au développement », Blogue Un seul monde, Institut d’études internationales de Montréal, Université du Québec à Montréal, April 16, 2021.
Brown, Stephen. “Gender equality, LGBTQ2I people and feminist foreign policy”. Blog post, McLeod Group, February 9, 2021 • Reposted on the blog of the Centre for International Policy Studies, University of Ottawa, February 11, 2021• Published in French as « Égalité des genres, personnes LGBTQ2I et politique étrangère féministe du Canada », Blogue Un seul monde, Institut d’études internationales de Montréal, Université du Québec à Montréal, March 1, 2021.
Aylward, Erin and Stephen Brown. “Sexual orientation and gender identity in Canada’s ‘feminist’ international assistance”. International Journal, vol. 75, no. 3 (2020), pp. 313-328.
Brown, Stephen. “The Rise and Fall of the Aid Effectiveness Norm”. European Journal of Development Research, vol. 32, no. 4 (2020), pp. 1230-1248.
Brown, Stephen. “Foreign Aid, the Mining Sector and Democratic Ownership: The Case of Canadian Assistance to Peru”. Development Policy Review, vol. 38, no. S1 (2020), pp. 13-31.
Brown, Stephen and Jonathan Fisher. “Aid Donors, Democracy and the Developmental State in Ethiopia”. Democratization, vol. 27, no. 2 (2020), pp. 185-203.
Brown, Stephen and Laura Macdonald. “Where do the Conservative leadership candidates stand on international issues?”. Blog post, McLeod Group, August 5, 2020 • Reposted on the blog of the Centre for International Policy Studies, University of Ottawa, August 6, 2020.
Bacher, Stéphanie and Stephen Brown. “Human rights are universal – except if they might offend someone?”. Blog post, McLeod Group, June 24, 2020 • Reposted on the blog of the Centre for International Policy Studies, University of Ottawa, June 24, 2020.
Brown, Stephen. “Protecting Canada: a dangerous justification for foreign aid”. Blog post, McLeod Group, May 21, 2020 • Reposted on the blog of the Centre for International Policy Studies, University of Ottawa, May 25, 2020.
Brown, Stephen. “Foreign aid flows: the Canadian government is still not stepping up to the plate”. Blog post, McLeod Group, April 16, 2020 • Reposted on the blog of the Centre for International Policy Studies, University of Ottawa, April 20, 2020 • Published in French as « L’aide étrangère : le gouvernement canadien n’est toujours pas à la hauteur », Réseau international pour l’innovation sociale et écologique, April 16, 2020.
Brown, Stephen. “Don’t abandon the global push for LGBTI rights”. Ottawa Citizen, January 16, 2020, p. A9 • Reposted under the title “Is the Trudeau Government Losing Interest in LGBTI Rights?” on the blog of the Centre for International Policy Studies, University of Ottawa, January 21, 2020 • Government response: Bardish Chagger, “Canada stands up for LGBTQ2 communities, here and abroad”, Ottawa Citizen, January 23, 2020.
Brown, Stephen. “A Samaritan State?, Canadian Foreign Aid, and the Challenges of Policy Coherence for Development”. In Greg Donaghy and David Webster, eds. A Samaritan State Revisited: Historical Perspectives on Canadian Foreign Aid. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2019, pp. 311-329.
Brown, Stephen. « L’aide canadienne au développement ». In Pierre Beaudet, Paul Haslam, Dominique Caouette et Abdelhamid Benhmade (dir.). Enjeux et défis du développement international : Acteurs et champs d’action, édition nouvelle et actualisée. Ottawa, Presses de l’Université d’Ottawa, 2019, pp. 249-253.
Brown, Stephen. “Foreign Aid on the Campaign Agenda”. Blog post, McLeod Group, October 3, 2019 • Reposted on the blog of the Centre for International Policy Studies, University of Ottawa, October 8, 2019.
Brown, Stephen. “Sending More Canadians Abroad: Innovative or Old-Fashioned Development Assistance?” Blog post, McLeod Group, August 29, 2019 • Reposted on the blog of the Centre for International Policy Studies, University of Ottawa, September 12, 2019.
Brown, Stephen. “Budget 2019: Peanuts for International Development”. Blog post, McLeod Group, March 21, 2019 • Reposted on the blog of the Centre for International Policy Studies, University of Ottawa, March 22, 2019.
Brown, Stephen. “All About That Base? Branding and the Domestic Politics of Canadian Foreign Aid”. Canadian Foreign Policy Journal, vol. 24, no. 2 (2018), pp. 145-164 • Republished in Richard Nimijean and David Carment, eds. Canada, Nation Branding and Domestic Politics. London: Routledge, 2019, pp. 19-38 • Winner of the 2018 Canadian Foreign Policy Journal Best Paper Prize.
Brown, Stephen and Hunter McGill. “Budget bill will reduce government accountability for Canadian foreign aid”. Hill Times, November 28, 2018, p. 13 • Reposted on the blog of the Centre for International Policy Studies, University of Ottawa, November 28, 2018 and the McLeod Group blog, December 6, 2018.
Brown, Stephen. “Beyond Aid Budgets: What Canada can do to promote international development”. OpenCanada.org website, Centre for International Governance Innovation, October 9, 2018 • Reposted on the blog of the Centre for International Policy Studies, University of Ottawa, October 10, 2018 • Published in French as « Budgets d’aide internationale: les (in)capacités du Canada », Blogue Un seul monde, Huffington Post Québec, December 16, 2018.
McGill, Hunter and Stephen Brown. “What do Canada’s peers say about Canadian development cooperation?”. Blog post, McLeod Group, September 18, 2018 • Reposted on the blog of the Centre for International Policy Studies, University of Ottawa, September 19, 2018.
Brown, Stephen and Hunter McGill. “The ODA Accountability Act at Ten: Time for an Update”. Blog post, McLeod Group, September 4, 2018 • Reposted on the blog of the Centre for International Policy Studies, University of Ottawa, September 5, 2018.
Brown, Stephen. “The Commonwealth’s Refusal to Address LGBTI Rights”. Blog post, Centre for International Policy Studies, University of Ottawa, April 25, 2018.
Brown, Stephen. “Canada among donors: What do the latest foreign aid statistics tell us?”. Blog post, McLeod Group, April 16, 2018 • Reposted on the blog of the Centre for International Policy Studies, University of Ottawa, April 17, 2018.
Brown, Stephen and Hunter McGill. “Budget 2018: A bit of good news for development”. Blog post, McLeod Group, February 28, 2018 • Reposted on the blog of the Centre for International Policy Studies, University of Ottawa, March 1, 2018.
Brown, Stephen. “Foreign Aid and National Ownership in Mali and Ghana”. Forum for Development Studies, vol. 44, no. 3 (2017), pp. 335-356.
Brown, Stephen and Liam Swiss. “Canada’s Feminist International Assistance Policy: Game Changer or Fig Leaf?”. In Katherine A.H. Graham and Allan M. Maslove, eds. How Ottawa Spends, 2017-2018. Ottawa: Carleton University, 2017, pp. 117-131.
Epprecht, Marc and Stephen Brown. “Queer Canada? The Harper Government and International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Intersex Rights”. In Rebecca Tiessen and Stephen Baranyi, eds. Obligations and Omissions: Canada’s Ambiguous Actions on Gender Equality. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2017, pp. 69-90.
Brown, Stephen. “‘The System is Broken’: Canada’s Latest Rationale for Stinginess”. Blog post, Centre for International Policy Studies, University of Ottawa, October 2, 2017 • Reposted on the McLeod Group’s blog, October 4, 2017 • Published in French as « “Le système est brisé” : justifier l’avarice du Canada », Blogue Un seul monde, Huffington Post Québec, October 29, 2017.
Brown, Stephen. “Harper Lite? The Trudeau Government on Foreign Aid”. Blog post, Centre for International Policy Studies, University of Ottawa, April 2, 2017 • Published in French as « Harper Lite? Le gouvernement Trudeau et l’aide au développement » on the same website and Blogue Un seul monde, Huffington Post Québec, April 9, 2017.
Brown, Stephen. “Putting Paris into practice: Foreign aid, national ownership and donor alignment in Mali and Ghana”. WIDER Working Paper 2016/145. Helsinki: United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), 2016, 18 pp.
Brown, Stephen, Molly den Heyer and David R. Black, eds. Rethinking Canadian Aid, Second Edition. Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 2016, 339 pp. (First Edition, 2014, 338 pp.) Open access: free download of the entire book here (PDF, 7.3 MB). Volume includes the following chapters:
- Brown, Stephen, Molly den Heyer and David R. Black. “Why Rethink Canadian Aid?”, pp. 1-13
- Brown, Stephen. “Undermining Foreign Aid: The Extractive Sector and the Recommercialization of Canadian Development Assistance”, pp. 273-294
- Black, David R., Stephen Brown and Molly den Heyer. “Rethinking Canadian Development Cooperation: Towards Renewed Partnerships”, pp. 295-311
Brown, Stephen. “Canadian Aid Policy during the Harper Years”. In Adam Chapnick and Christopher J. Kukucha, eds. The Harper Era in Canadian Foreign Policy: Parliament, Politics, and Canada’s Global Posture. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2016, pp. 167-180.
Brown, Stephen. “The Instrumentalization of Foreign Aid under the Harper Government”. Studies in Political Economy, vol. 97, no. 1 (2016), pp. 18-36 • A portion of this article was previously published as « Le gouvernement Harper et l’aide au développement ». Nouveaux Cahiers du socialisme, nº 13 (2015), pp. 337-345.
Brown, Stephen and Jörn Grävingholt, eds. The Securitization of Foreign Aid. Basingstoke, UK and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016, 296 pp. Volume includes the following chapters:
- Brown, Stephen and Jörn Grävingholt. “Security, Development and the Securitization of Foreign Aid”, pp. 1-17
- Brown, Stephen. “From Ottawa to Kandahar and Back: The Securitization of Canadian Foreign Aid”, pp. 113-137
- Brown, Stephen, Jörn Grävingholt and Rosalind Raddatz. “The Securitization of Foreign Aid: Trends, Explanations and Prospects”, pp. 237-255
Brown, Stephen. “The International Assistance Review: What They Heard”. Blog post, McLeod Group, December 19, 2016.
Brown, Stephen. “Whatever happened to the Aid Effectiveness Agenda” and « Qu’est-il advenu de l’efficacité de l’aide? ». Blog entries, Centre for International Policy Studies, University of Ottawa, December 6, 2016 • Earlier versions posted as blog entries, McLeod Group, November 29, 2016 and Blogue Un seul monde, Huffington Post Québec, November 30, 2016.
Brown, Stephen. “Pros and cons of writing a book chapter”. Blog post, University Affairs online, August 29, 2016.
Liam Swiss and Stephen Brown. “Opaque Transparency in Canada’s Foreign Aid”. Blog post, McLeod Group, June 30, 2016.
Brown, Stephen. “Policy Coherence for Development: Putting it into Practice”. Blog post, McLeod Group, June 23, 2016. Reposted on the blog of the Centre for International Policy Studies, University of Ottawa, June 24, 2016.
Brown, Stephen. “Budget 2016: Postponing Decisions on Canada’s Foreign Aid”. Blog post, Centre for International Policy Studies, University of Ottawa and the McLeod Group, March 24, 2016.
Brown, Stephen. “Migration as a Threat to Foreign Aid?”. Blog post, Centre for International Policy Studies, University of Ottawa, March 16, 2016 • Published in French as « La migration, une menace à l’aide au développement ? ». Blogue Un seul monde, Huffington Post Québec, March 14, 2016.
Brown, Stephen. “How to put together a great edited volume”. University Affairs online, February 2, 2016.
Brown, Stephen. “Canada’s Development Interventions: Unpacking Motives and Effectiveness in Canadian Foreign Aid”. In Fen Osler Hampson and Stephen M. Saideman, eds. Canada Among Nations 2015. Elusive Pursuits: Lessons From Canada’s Interventions Abroad. Waterloo, ON: Centre for International Governance Innovation, 2015, pp. 139-159.
Brown, Stephen. “Foreign Aid and Policy Coherence for Development”. In B. Mak Arvin and Byron Lew, eds. Handbook on the Economics of Foreign Aid. Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2015, pp. 477-487.
Brown, Stephen. “A backwards decade on foreign aid”. Toronto Star, October 16, 2015, p. A19.
Swiss, Liam and Stephen Brown. “The Aid Orphan Myth“. Third World Quarterly, vol. 36, no. 2 (2015), pp. 240-256.
Brown, Stephen. “Aid Effectiveness and the Framing of New Canadian Aid Initiatives”. In Duane Bratt and Christopher J. Kukucha, eds. Readings in Canadian Foreign Policy: Classic Debates and New Ideas. Third Edition. Don Mills, ON: Oxford University Press, 2015, pp. 467-81 • Earlier version published in ibid., Second Edition, 2011, pp. 469-86 and republished in Stephen Brown, ed. Struggling for Effectiveness: CIDA and Canadian Foreign Aid. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2012, pp. 79-107.
Brown, Stephen. “15 Proposals for Canadian Foreign Aid”. Blog post, Centre for International Policy Studies, University of Ottawa, January 11, 2015 • Published in French as « 15 propositions pour l’aide canadienne ». Blogue Un seul monde, Huffington Post Québec, January 8, 2015.
BDire Consequences or Empty Threats? Western Pressure for Peace, Justice and Democracy in Kenya”. Journal of Eastern African Studies, vol. 8, no. 1 (2014), pp. 43-62.
and Rosalind Raddatz, “Stuart, Rieky and Stephen Brown. “Mr. Harper’s Maternal and Child Health Summit: What’s Still Missing?”. McLeod Group Blog, June 10, 2014.
Brown, Stephen. “CIDA’s Underspending: The Minister’s Explanations Don’t Add Up”. Blog post, Centre for International Policy Studies, University of Ottawa, April 28, 2014.
Brown, Stephen. “When Policy Coherence is a Bad Thing”. Blog post, Centre for International Policy Studies, University of Ottawa, February 3, 2014. Published in French as « Quand la cohérence des politiques nuit au développement ». Blogue Un seul monde, Huffington Post Québec, March 28, 2014.
Brown, Stephen and Liam Swiss. “The Hollow Ring of Donor Commitment: Country Concentration and the Decoupling of Aid Effectiveness Norms from Donor Practice”. Development Policy Review, vol. 31, no. 6 (2013), pp. 737-755.
Brown, Stephen. “Canada’s foreign aid before and after CIDA: Not a Samaritan state”. International Journal, vol. 68, no. 3 (2013), pp. 501-512.
Brown, Stephen and Michael Olender. “Canada’s Fraying Commitment to Multilateral Development Cooperation”. In Hany Besada and Shannon Kindornay, eds. Multilateral Development Cooperation in a Changing Global Order. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013, pp. 158-188.
Brown, Stephen. “Canadian Aid to Africa”. In Rohinton Medhora and Yiagadeesen Samy, eds. Canada Among Nations 2013. Canada-African Relations: Looking Back, Looking Ahead. Waterloo, ON: Centre for International Governance Innovation, 2013, pp. 181-94.
Brown, Stephen. “Democracy Promotion in Africa”. In Nic Cheeseman, David M. Anderson and Andrea Scheibler, eds. Routledge Handbook of African Politics. London: Routledge, 2013, pp. 404-13.
Brown, Stephen. “The National Accord, Impunity and the Fragile Peace in Kenya”. In Chandra Lekha Sriram, Jemima García-Godos, Johanna Herman and Olga Martin-Ortega, eds. Transitional Justice and Peacebuilding on the Ground: Victims and Ex-Combatants. London: Routledge, 2013, pp. 238-254.
Brown, Stephen. “The Life and Death of CIDA (1968-2013)”. Canadian Dimension, vol. 47, no. 5 (2013), p. 13.
Brown, Stephen. “Still a Bumpy Road. The Multiple Challenges of External Democracy Promotion”. Global Governance Spotlight. Bonn: Stiftung Entwicklung und Frieden/Development and Peace Foundation, April 2013 (4 pp.) • Published in German as “Ein steiniger Weg. Herausforderungen externer Democratieförderung”.
Brown, Stephen. “Killing CIDA: The Wrong Solution to Real Problems”. Blog post, Centre for International Policy Studies, University of Ottawa, March 25, 2013.
Brown, Stephen, ed. Struggling for Effectiveness: CIDA and Canadian Foreign Aid. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2012, 384 pp. Volume includes the following chapters:
- Brown, Stephen. “Canadian Aid Enters the Twenty-First Century”, pp. 3-23 • Excerpt published in World Financial Review, May-June 2013, pp. 40-43.
- Brown, Stephen. “CIDA’s New Partnership with Canadian NGOs: Modernizing for Greater Effectiveness?”, pp. 287-304.
- Brown, Stephen and Rosalind Raddatz. “Taking Stock, Looking Ahead”, pp. 327-343.
Brown, Stephen. “Why we still need CIDA and foreign aid”. uOttawaExpert Blog, Gazette, University of Ottawa, October 17, 2012.
Brown, Stephen. “Foreign aid: More of the same?”. Embassy, September 19, 2012, p. 17.
Brown, Stephen. “Bev Oda’s Real Legacy at CIDA”. Blog post, Centre for International Policy Studies, University of Ottawa, July 10, 2012.
Brown, Stephen. “Transitional Justice as Subterfuge”, OpenCanada.org website, Canadian International Council, May 9, 2012 • Republished in the blog 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 (2012), pp. 244-260.
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. 219-244.
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. 127-143.
Brown, Stephen and Jörn Grävingholt. From Power Struggles to Sustainable Peace: Understanding Political Settlements. Paris: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2011 (56 pp.).
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 Canada, 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 (2011), pp. 512-534 • Also published in Gordon Crawford and Gabrielle Lynch, eds. Democratization in Africa: Challenges and Prospects. London: Routledge, 2012, pp. 238-260.
Brown, Stephen. « Justice pénale internationale et violences électorales : les enjeux de la CPI au Kenya ». Revue Tiers Monde, nº 205 (2011), pp. 85-100.
Brown, Stephen. “The Rule of Law and the Hidden Politics of Transitional Justice in Rwanda”. In Chandra Lekha Sriram, Olga Martín-Ortega and Johanna Herman, eds. Peacebuilding and the Rule of Law in Africa: Just Peace? London: Routledge, 2011, pp. 179-196.
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 (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. 213-226.
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. • Published in French as « La réforme de l’aide et la coopération au développement : Accra, Doha et au-delà », Note politique, Ottawa, Institut Nord-Sud, août 2008, 10 pp.
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. 250-271.
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. 267-290.
Brown, Stephen. “Transition from a Personal Dictatorship in Malawi: Democratization and the Legacy of the Past”. 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 (2007), pp. 1131-1149 • Also appears in slightly different form in Jose V. Ciprut, ed. Democratizations: Comparisons, Confrontations, and Contrasts. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2009, pp. 233-258.
Brown, Stephen. « Le Rapport du Sénat sur l’aide canadienne à l’Afrique : une analyse à rejeter ». Le Multilatéral, vol. 1, nº 3 (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 (2007), pp. 213-228 • 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. 327-347.
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. 301-329.
Brown, Stephen. “Achieving the Development Objectives of Canada’s International Policy Statement”. McGill International Review, vol. 6, no. 1 (2005), pp. 52-55.
Brown, Stephen. “Foreign Aid and Democracy Promotion: Lessons from Africa”. European Journal of Development Research, vol. 17, no. 2 (2005), pp. 179-198.
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. 705-722.
Brown, Stephen. “Theorising Kenya’s Protracted Transition to Democracy”. Journal of Contemporary African Studies, vol. 22, no. 3 (2004), pp. 325-342.
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 (2002), pp. 119-138 • Abridged version published 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 (2001), pp. 725-739.
Brown, Stephen. “Malawi: The Trouble with Democracy”. Southern Africa Report, vol. 15, no. 4 (2000), pp. 19-23.