The rising prominence of new state and non-state actors in international politics has stimulated extensive discussion in the social sciences over the last decade and development cooperation has been a central arena for conceptualising the encounter between old and new powers. This working paper...

Finance to support climate change mitigation and adaptation comes from diverse sources. Coordination among the multiplicity of actors involved in finance provision and delivery has the potential to limit the duplication of efforts, lower administrative costs, and ensure that resource commitments...

The past decade ushered in an almost historic backslide towards more autocratic forms of governance. Today, for the first time in almost thirty years, the world has more closed autocracies than liberal democracies, and the past two years alone have seen nine new countries move into this...

After earlier strategies for Denmark's development cooperation from 1993, 2000, 2010, 2012 and 2017, the latest strategy, The World We Share, from 2021 now expires, and a new is accordingly(?) needed. The parliament will start negotiating the strategy in May 2025. One may fear that it will be in...

The global arena for development cooperation is in a state of flux, as the conventional drivers of economic and social progress have seen rapid transformations in the last years. In the South, new powers have (re)emerged and now represent proper alternatives to conventional North-South...

2015 is the deadline by which the 193 UN Member States have committed to achieve the Millennium Development Goals and when discussions on a possible future framework will have to be concluded. Since the MDGs were designed in the 1990s the world has witnessed profound changes, and the...

China's interest in other countries' infrastructure has become a sensitive issue for governments and media, in particular in Western countries. In particular, Chinese companies are aggressively seeking entrance into the European market, and European countries may find Chinese companies to be the...

On 27 February 2013 the European Commissioners for Development and Environment presented a proposal for a joint European Union (EU) position for a post-2015 framework on global development. This Briefing Paper looks into what the EU can learn from three past international negotiation processes...

During the past decade attention paid to the role of private foundations in international development cooperation has intensified, as several of these have increased their global giving and transformed their approach to philanthropy from reactive grant-making to strategic social impact. While...