In a new article for @globalpolicy.bsky.social, @andypsumner.bsky.social & @stephanklingebiel.bsky.social lay out the contours of the new ‘nationalist conditionality regime’. www.globalpolicyjournal.com/blog/05/03/2...
Is the present juncture a crisis or an opportunity for #InternationalCooperation?
Len Ishmael, @stephanklingebiel.bsky.social and @andypsumner.bsky.social argue that the answer is: both.
📲 www.globalpolicyjournal.com/blog/16/02/2...
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The development cooperation system is in flux, as donor retrenchment, US policy shifts, and rising Southern alternatives drive a fundamental contest over its purpose and future shape, writes @andypsumner.bsky.social
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"A new Independent North–South Commission could offer a credible response to today’s fragmentation by providing a structured space for international dialogue grounded in fairness, feasibility, and forward-thinking."
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www.developmentresearch.eu?p=2283
This episode of Africafé examines how Africa’s #DevelopmentAid landscape is shifting amid major cuts by traditional donors and changing global priorities.
- With @stephanklingebiel.bsky.social and @andypsumner.bsky.social.
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Development cooperation is no longer evolving quietly. It’s being renegotiated in the open. Is 2025 the tipping point? asks @andypsumner.bsky.social and @stephanklingebiel.bsky.social
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2025 was a busy year for our blog, with 47 posts published, 10 "Decolonising Stories" and 10 in the "Trump and Development" series
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@policycenterns.bsky.social hosted a seminar titled “Crisis or Opportunity? #Multilateralism in a Polycentric World" with contributions from Len Ishmael, @andypsumner.bsky.social &
@stephanklingebiel.bsky.social.
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Development cooperation is no longer evolving quietly. It’s being renegotiated in the open. Is 2025 the tipping point? asks @andypsumner.bsky.social and @stephanklingebiel.bsky.social
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Friends not Foes? Why Development Economics and Development Studies still need each other
By Professor @andypsumner.bsky.social, @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social via @globaldevinst.bsky.social
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@andypsumner.bsky.social & @stephanklingebiel.bsky.social assess how President Trump’s decision to quit 66 int. organisations continues the administration’s attempt to reshape the operating space for global #DevelopmentPolicy: www.globalpolicyjournal.com/blog/15/01/2... @globalpolicy.bsky.social
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#GlobalCooperation is under stress: does it represent a crisis or opportunity, and what does workable cooperation look like in a polycentric world?
By Len Ishmael, @stephanklingebiel.bsky.social & @andypsumner.bsky.social: www.idos-research.de/en/others-pu... @policycenterns.bsky.social
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With #Trump ’s return to the #WhiteHouse in January 2025, a significant phase in #InternationalAffairs, including global #DevelopmentPolicy, began.
@stephanklingebiel.bsky.social & @andypsumner.bsky.social describe the shift as the “New Washington Dissensus” (NWD).
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In @globalpolicy.bsky.social, @andypsumner.bsky.social & @stephanklingebiel.bsky.social argue that the old assumptions about who sets development policy norms, who pays, and who decides what counts as “cooperation” no longer seem to hold.
📄 www.globalpolicyjournal.com/blog/17/12/2...
"Contemporary scholarship demonstrates that development is multidimensional, path-dependent, and often non-linear; that the experience of industrialized countries is neither universally transferable nor normatively desirable"
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@andypsumner.bsky.social and @stephanklingebiel.bsky.social ask: What does the #GlobalDevelopment architecture look like in this world five years from now?
The experts see four stylised visions emerging in competition. Which is most likely to prevail?
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"This is not technical language. It sounds like a political signal that the G7 intends to reshape how development cooperation is organised, coordinated and justified."
www.developmentresearch.eu?p=2398
"Governments, parliaments, and non-state actors — who support what until recently was a broad global consensus on sustainable development need to find ways to counter the destructive influence of the Trump administration on established forums such as the G7 and G20"
www.developmentresearch.eu?p=2398
In our latest blog, @andypsumner.bsky.social (@kings-sga.bsky.social) and @stephanklingebiel.bsky.social (@idos-research.bsky.social) take the recent G7 Development Ministers’ Chair’s Summary as basis for their analysis
