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Swedlund
Associate Professor, Radboud University
2015-17 Visiting Fellow, MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies
Yale University (USA)
Education
2011 Ph.D., Political Science | The Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs,
Syracuse University
Subfields: International Relations and Comparative Politics
2007 M.A., Political Science | The Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs,
Syracuse University
Publications
Books
HJ Swedlund. 2017. The Development Dance: How Donors and Recipients Negotiate
the Delivery of Foreign Aid. Cornell University Press.
• Roundtable at the 2018 International Studies Association (ISA) Annual Meeting
• OpenCanada’s “Twelve Recommended Reads for The 2018 Holiday”
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• Reviewed in Perspectives on Politics; Journal of Modern African Studies; Le Point
Phébé; International Studies; Revue canadienne d’études du développement
S Campbell, M Findley, H Swedlund. Aid in Conflict. In Progress (Full Draft).
Peer-Reviewed Articles
B Reisberg and HJ Swedlund. 2023. “How transparent are aid agencies to their citizens?
Introducing the citizen aid transparency dataset.” Journal of International Develop-
ment. OnlineFirst. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/jid.3762
M Turolla, HJ Swedlund, M. Schut and P. Muchunguzi. 2022. “‘Stop calling me a youth!’:
Understanding and analysing heterogeneity among Ugandan youth agripreneurs.” Africa
Spectrum, 57(2), 178–203: DOI: 10.1177/00020397221105292
S Dierich, H. Hardt, and HJ Swedlund. 2021. ”How to do elite experiments in IR.” Euro-
pean Journal of International Relations, 27(2):596-621. DOI: 10.1177/1354066120987891
L Alcorta, HJ Swedlund, and J Smits. 2020. “Discrimination and ethnic conflict: A dyadic
analysis of politically-excluded groups in sub-Saharan Africa.” International Interac-
tions, 46(2), 251-273. DOI: 10.1080/03050629.2020.1716748
L Alcorta, J Smits, HJ Swedlund, and E de Jong. 2020. “The ‘dark side’ of social capital:
A cross-national examination of the relationship between social capital and violence
in Africa.” Social Indicators Research, 149, 445–465. DOI: 10.1007/s11205-019-
02264-z
HJ Swedlund and M Lierl. 2020. “The rise and fall of budget support: Ownership, bar-
gaining and donor commitment problems in foreign aid.” Development Policy Review,
38(S1), O50-O69. DOI: 10.1111/dpr.12463
ME Desrosiers and HJ Swedlund. 2019. “Rwanda’s post-genocide foreign aid relations:
Revisiting notions of exceptionalism.” African Affairs, 118 (472), 435-462.
DOI: 10.1093/afraf/ady032
L Alcorta, J Smits and HJ Swedlund. 2018. “Inequality and ethnic conflict in sub-Saharan
Africa.” Social Forces, 97(2): 769-792. DOI: 10.1093/sf/soy049
HJ Swedlund. 2017. “Can foreign aid donors credibly threaten to suspend aid? Evi-
dence from a cross-national survey of donor officials.” Review of International Political
Economy, 24(3): 454- 496. DOI: 10.1080/09692290.2017.1302490
HJ Swedlund. 2017. “Is China eroding the bargaining power of traditional donors in
Africa?” International Affairs. 93(2): 389-408. DOI: 10.1093/ia/iiw059
**Nominated for Early Career Award (2017), International Affairs & Chatham House**
HJ Swedlund. 2013. “From donorship to ownership? Budget support and donor influence
in Rwanda and Tanzania.” Public Administration & Development. 33(5): 357-370.
DOI: 10.1002/pad.1665
HJ Swedlund. 2013. “The domestication of governance assessments: Evidence from the
Rwandan ‘joint’ governance assessment.” Conflict, Security & Development. 13(4):
449-470. DOI: 10.1080/14678802.2013.834117
J Lecy, HP Schmitz, and HJ Swedlund. “Non-governmental and not-for-profit organiza-
tional effectiveness: A modern synthesis.” 2012. Voluntas: International Journal of
Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations. 23(2): 434-457. DOI: 10.1007/s11266-011-
9204-6
**Best article in journal (2012), International Society for Third-Sector Research**
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E Balogun and HJ Swedlund, editors. “Forum: Bridging the Gap between academics and
policymakers in Africa.” International Studies Review. In Progress.
HJ Swedlund, editor. “The political economy of receiving foreign aid.” Journal of Interna-
tional Development. In Progress.
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HJ Swedlund. 2017. “Foreign aid’s commitment problem.” The First Tranche, AidData’s
Blog. 15 September.
HJ Swedlund. 2017. “Is China displacing traditional aid donors in Africa? The evidence
suggests not.” The Conversation. 27 February.
***Republished in: MSN Money, Quartz-Africa, AllAfrica.com, The Star (Kenya), China
File, Asia Times, The New Age (South Africa)
HJ Swedlund. 2015. “Why donors demand elections after unrest in developing countries.”
The Washington Post. 11 December.
Grants
2022 Knowledge Management Fund Principal Investigator
Knowledge Platform Security & Rule of Law
€20.000
Media Appearances
Podcast, Fragile Truths | Season 3, Episode 6 | Unintended Effects: Backlash to aid and
undermining social contracts
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”Should the World Bank fund schools that expel pregnant girls?” 14 March 2020 | The
Economist
”As Cambodian repression worsens, donors fret over their responses” by Abigail Seiff, 12
December 2017 | DEVEX
Teaching Experience
Graduate Supervision
• PhD Co-Supervisor, Nada Afa, International responses to unconstitutional regime
change. (Radboud University); PhD in progress.
• PhD Co-Supervisor, Zhenyuan Shi, China’s international development cooperation
and the new foreign aid agency. (Radboud University); PhD in progress.
• PhD Co-Supervisor, Sarah Abdelatif. Can we stop reinventing the wheel? The role
of organisational learning in international development cooperation. (Radboud Uni-
versity); PhD in progress.
• PhD Co-Supervisor, Liza Steultjens. Synergizing sustainability – policy coherence,
the SDGS, and agricultural development and trade policies in Sub-Saharan Africa
(Radboud University); PhD in progress.
• PhD Co-Supervisor, Maya Turolla, Youth in agribusiness in Uganda: An ethnography
of a development trend (Radboud University and University of Bologna); PhD granted
September 2019.
• PhD Co-Supervisor, Ludovico Alcorta, Exploring the ‘dark matter’ of conflict: The
role of inequalities, perceptions, identity and social capital’ (Radboud University); PhD
granted December 2019.
• Master’s Theses Supervisor, 70+ master’s students in Political Science and Human
Geography since 2011
Teaching Certifications
2019 Advanced Teaching Qualification
Radboud University Nijmegen
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Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MINBUZA), Kingdom of the Netherlands
The Hague, The Netherlands | December 2017
Beijing Forum, Sub-forum on Emerging Trends in Sino-African Development Cooperation
Beijing, China | November 2017
Yale Center Beijing
Beijing, China | November 2017
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Yale University, Yale Council on African Studies, Africa Brown Bag Series
New Haven, Connecticut | February 2011
SIT Study Abroad, Uganda/Rwanda: Peace and Conflict Studies in the Lake Victoria Basin
Kigali, Rwanda | July 2010
Cornell University, Institute for African Development
Ithaca, New York | April 2010
Syracuse University, Political Science Research Workshop
Syracuse, New York | September 2010
Rwandan Association of University Women
Kigali, Rwanda | October 2009
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2021– Board Member
De Nederlandse Kring voor de Wetenschap der Politiek (Dutch Political Science
Association)
2021 Workshop Convener, Foreign Aid Withdrawals & Suspensions: When, Why & and are
they Effective?
co-organized with Nic Cheeseman and Cleo O’Brien-Udry
Virtual Workshop