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Blessed is he who considers the human rights paradigm: Maltese aid between charity and human rights and between Catholicism and secularism / Calleja-Ragonesi, Isabelle; Khakee, Anna ; Pisani, Maria

Calleja-Ragonesi, Isabelle	Article
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Malta became a donor country with European Union membership in 2004. Maltese organizations (most prominently—but not solely—those linked to the Catholic Church) had, however, been active in development overseas long before that date. This essay offers the first systematic, empirically grounded account of Maltese governmental and nongovernmental aid, based on official and unofficial statistical information on official development assistance levels and distribution; a database compiled by the authors covering nongovernmental Maltese development organizations; and an analysis of a sample of government- and nongovernment-funded projects. The essay analyzes the empirical material based on the dichotomy of charity-based versus humanrights-based development and examines how these two development paradigms overlap with—and differ from—the Catholic/secular divide within the Maltese aid landscape.

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European Colonial Pasts and the EU’s Democracy-promoting Present: Silences and Continuities / Khakee, Anna

Khakee, Anna	Journal Article
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How is EU democracy promotion made compatible with European colonial powers’ recent history of quashing democratic and human rights? A discourse analysis of general programmatic EU statements and texts related to selected salient historic junctures – the Algerian Hirak, the 2018 Democratic Republic of Congo elections and the Arab Uprisings – reveals that EU policy-makers reconcile the colonial past and the democracy-promoting present mostly through a silencing of colonialism. The consequence is that colonial-time hierarchical discourses are left undisturbed. Moreover, the projection of peace, democracy and the rule of law becomes not only the oft-noted break with the past, but also a continuity with colonial discourses of Europeans as ‘democratic’, ‘humanitarian’ and ‘civilised’.

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European Union ; Algeria ; Postcolonialism ; Democratic Republic of Congo ; Democracy Promotion ; Arab Uprisings

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