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THIS PAPER DIFFERENTIATES AND EXPLORES THE MECHANISMS THROUGH WHICH THE US AID HAS SERVED TO MAINTAIN KING HUSSEIN'S REGIME IN JORDAN. THE CHARACTER OF THE DIFFERENT FORMS OF US AID TO JORDAN, THE SIGNIFICANCE OF INDIVIDUAL AID FOR REGIME MAINTENANCE, AND THE NATURE OF HUSSEIN'S DEPENDENCY ARE DISCUSSED.

Although in recent years the international community has focused on how to fix fragile states, none of its standard remedies – more aid, economic reform and larger peacekeeping forces – has really addressed the fundamental problems troubling these places. In this article, it is argued that fractured societies require a new approach, one that is more firmly rooted in indigenous capacities and institutions.

Abstract: This article seeks to enrich the production of knowledge about Black feminisms by documenting the mobilizations of the Cameroonian nationalist activists of the Democratic Union of Cameroonian Women, or UDEFEC, in the middle of the 1950s. I will center the contributions of African women to movements for women's equality. To this end, I consider the emancipatory speeches and practices elaborated by female activists coming from rural zones within the frame of the reorganization of the nationalist public space in order to understand how their participation in the fight for liberation reveals a Black feminist practice. This approach outlines the contours of a political project as the vector for a holistic, equitable emancipation, focused on the margins and founded on the dismantling of the coloniality of gender and female citizenship, on the one hand, and the establishment of a democratic society that values popular sovereignty, on the other .