Subject: [CivilSoc] J. Wedel's _Collision and Collusion_ Wins 2000 Grawemeyer Award
From: Center for Civil Society International (ccsi@u.washington.edu)
Date: Thu Dec 07 2000 - 15:35:10 EST
November 30, 2000
Colleagues:
The University of Louisville is pleased to announce that the 2001
winner of the $200,000 Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World
Order is Janine R. Wedel for her book, _Collision and Collusion; The
Strange Case of Western Aid to Eastern Europe 1989-98_ (St.
Martin's).
Professor Wedel argues in her 1998 book that the American government
helped wreak economic and social disaster in Russia by providing
inappropriate policy advice and aid to corrupt power brokers. A raft
of fly-in, fly-out consultants and reforms financed by Western
taxpayers did little to help Russia and other former Soviet bloc
nations build themselves as democratic, free-market states.
"This is a book that is bound to have a long-term impact on the
practice and politics of foreign aid from the West to non-western
economies," said the Grawemeyer selection committee.
Professor Wedel is an anthropologist at University of Pittsburgh's
Graduate School of Public and International Affairs and director of
research development at Pittsburgh's Ridgway Center. She is also a
fellow at the National Institute of Justice in Washington D.C.
For more information about the winner, her work, or the prize, see
www.grawemeyer.org.
Nominations for the 2002 award are due by January 10, 2001. A copy of
the nomination form is available on the web page.
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