"State Transformation and Chinese Foreign Policy If we want to understand China's international behaviour, we have to open the black box ... State authority is fragmenting, more and more actors are involved in the making of foreign policy, and implementing it. Authority is incre…
Is China's rise a threat to international order? Fractured China shows that it depends on what one means by 'China', for China is not the monolithic, unitary actor that many assume. Forty years of state transformation - the fragmentation, decentralisation and internationalisatio…
Development as self-interest -- Targeted development in perspective -- Maximizing utility vis- a-vis developing countries -- Re-orienting foreign aid -- Preferential trade agreements as development policy -- Climate finance for developing countries.
"The success of any international development agency depends on an understanding of the ways in which a community and individuals relate to ideas and resources. David Lewis and David Mosse have brought together a number of anthropologists with practical experience in development…
Development failures, environmental degradation, and social fragmentation can no longer be regarded as side-effects or 'externalities'. They are the toxic consequences of pretensions that the modern Western view of knowledge is a universal neutral view, applicable to all people …