Challenging the Aid Paradigm

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction: Reinventing Development for the Twenty-First Century?

   1. Introduction: Reinventing Development for the Twenty-First Century?

      • Jens Stilhoff Sörensen

      Pages 1-22

3. Western Currents

   1. Front Matter

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   2. The Development-Security Nexus in Historical Perspective: Governing the World of Peoples

      • Mark Duffield

      Pages 25-46

   3. From Materialism to Non-materialism in International Development: Revisiting Rostow’s Stages of Growth and Schumacher’s Small is Beautiful

      • Vanessa Pupavac

      Pages 47-77

   4. Aid Policy, Civil Society and Ethnic Polarisation

      • Jens Stilhoff Sörensen

      Pages 78-104

4. Asian Alternatives

   1. Front Matter

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   2. Challenges or Complements for the West: Is there an ‘Asian’ Model of Aid Emerging?

      • Marie Söderberg

      Pages 107-137

   3. China’s Aid to Africa: Policy Evolution, Characteristics and Its Role

      • He Wenping

      Pages 138-165

   4. Chinese and African Views on Chinese Aid and Trade in Africa

      • Johan Lagerkvist

      Pages 166-185

   5. Chinese Foreign Aid: The Tale of a Silent Enterprise

      • Yahia Mohamed Mahmoud

      Pages 186-213

   6. China in Africa: Any Impact on Development and Aid?

      • Henning Melber

      Pages 214-240

   7. Conclusion: The ‘Bios’ and ‘Geo’ of Contemporary Development-Security Policy

      • Jens Stilhoff Sörensen

      Pages 241-246

5. Back Matter

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Challenging the Aid Paradigm critically examines central aspects of Western international aid policy, while at the same time exploring non-western, especially Chinese, aid and assesses to what extent these may be competitive or complementary.

• China
• Civil society
• development
• development aid
• growth
• international aid
• Policy
• development policy

• Swedish Institute of International Affairs, Sweden

  Jens Stilhoff Sörensen

MARK DUFFIELD Professor of Development Politics, University of Bristol, UK VANESSA PUPAVAC Lecturer in International Relations, University of Nottingham, UK MARIE SÖDERBERG Professor of Economics and Director of the European Institute for Japanese Studies, Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden HE WENPING Professor in the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and Director of the African Studies Department, Institute of West Asian and African Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing JOHAN LAGERKVIST Research Fellow in Sinology, Swedish Institute of International Affairs, Sweden YAHIA MOHAMED MAHMOOD Research Fellow, Department of Cultural and Economic Geography, University of Lund, Sweden HENNING MELBER Director, Dag Hammarsköld Foundation, Sweden

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