Handbook on the Politics of International Development

Edited by Melisa Deciancio, Senior Fellow Researcher, University of Münster, Germany and Fellow Researcher, National Scientific and Technical Research Council, and Department of International Relations, FLACSO Argentina, Argentina, Pablo Nemiña, Full Researcher, National Scientific and Technical Research Council and National University of San Martín, and Associate Researcher, Department of International Relations, FLACSO Argentina, Argentina and Diana Tussie, Head, Department of International Relations, FLACSO Argentina, and Emeritus Fellow Researcher, National Scientific and Technical Research Council, Argentina

Contents:

Introduction to Handbook on the Politics of International Development 1
Melisa Deciancio, Pablo Nemiña and Diana Tussie

PART I THE CONCEPT AND POLITICS OF DEVELOPMENT:
PARADIGMATIC DEBATES
1 International development in a historical context 15
José Antonio Ocampo
2 Democracy and development: the case of foreign direct investment 31
John Marangos and Eirini Triarchi
3 The politics of the developmental state 46
Giuseppe Gabusi
4 The politics of decolonizing development 62
Rosalba Icaza and Rolando Vázquez
5 The politics of developmental regionalism 75
Helen E. S. Nesadurai

PART II DEVELOPMENT AND CONTESTED GLOBALIZATION
6 The global governance of development 91
Axel Marx and Kari Otteburn
7 The China model of development as solidarity 107
Xi Lin
8 The politics of crime, law and development in historical perspective 118
Tom Chodor and Jarrett Blaustein
9 Reviewing the GVC approach and its international institutionalization:
a critical perspective 131
Víctor Ramiro Fernández and Manuel Facundo Trevignani
10 The politics of international monetary relations 148
Oscar Ugarteche
11 The politics of south–south cooperation 168
Bernabé Malacalza
12 Civil society and the politics of development 183
Daniela Irrera
13 The development compact 197
Milindo Chakrabarti

PART III THE POLITICS OF DEVELOPMENT AGENDAS
14 The global political economy of development finance: myths and new
realities in Latin American development finance 218
Ernesto Vivares and Leonardo E. Stanley
15 Development and climate: a tale of two crises 231
Peter Newell
16 The politics of food 243
Thiago Lima and Andrea Santos Baca
17 The politics of the global gender agenda: a pathway to empowerment 257
María del Pilar López-Uribe, María Alejandra Chávez, María Paula Neira
Ahumada and Paulina Pastrana
18 The politics of global health 286
Christiane Struckmann
19 The politics of international migration 301
Fabiola Mieres
20 The politics of the sustainable development goals 315
Bruce Currie-Alder
21 Bioeconomy governance and (sustainable) development 329
Melisa Deciancio, Karen M. Siegel, Daniel Kefeli, Guilherme de Queiroz
Stein and Thomas Dietz
22 Aid for Trade and development 346
Juliana Peixoto Batista and Vanesa Knoop

PART IV GLOBAL ACTORS IN THE POLITICS OF DEVELOPMENT
23 The World Bank and the politics of development 360
João Márcio Mendes Pereira
24 The politics of the International Monetary Fund 376
Timon Forster, Thomas H. Stubbs and Alexander E. Kentikelenis
25 The politics of development in the WTO, or there and back again … 392
Amrita Narlikar
26 The United Nations and the politics of development 405
Andrés Rivarola Puntigliano
27 From ‘club of the rich’ to ‘globalization à la carte’? Is the OECD
becoming a global player? 417
Judith Clifton and Daniel Díaz-Fuentes
28 The politics of the regional development banks 435
Stefano Palestini
29 The domestic and external conditions of the Chinese development path 450
Alexandre Cesar Cunha Leite, Javier Vadell and Leonardo Ramos
30 Private foundations and the politics of international development 461
Elham Seyedsayamdost

Index 477