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Can foreign donors help build new democracies? In the 1990s, public
and private organizations such as USAID and the Soros Foundation
poured huge amounts of money and expertise into Russia to help
build the dream of a vibrant democratic society. Sarah L. Henderson
argues that despite the altruistic intentions of foreign assistance
agencies and domestic activists, foreign aid designed to spur civic
growth has had unintended consequences. Drawing on extensive field
work, survey research, and work experience for several funding
agencies in Moscow in the late 1990s, Henderson focuses on donor
efforts to support the emerging community of nongovernmental
organizations and, in particular, on efforts to build a functioning
women's movement in Russia. Her intimate knowledge of Russia's
growing NGO community informs a worrisome finding: foreign aid has
made a tremendous difference, but not in altogether expected or
positive ways. New Russian civic groups serve either the needs of
an indigenous clientele or the demands of the foreign aid
bureaucracy but rarely both. Henderson's research and experience
show that while aid has kept a fledgling civic community alive, it
is a civic community that is disconnected from its own domestic
audience. The book suggests that large flows of foreign aid have in
some ways damaged the long-term prospects for democratization in
Russia."
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