Since its foundation in 1961, the OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC) – nerve centre of the aid effort of the “rich” countries – has played a central role in the PostWar aid system. This book traces the history of the institution and reflects on its future. How intense diplomacy...

This paper uses the development policy system as an entry point assuming that various fundamental changes along three dimensions - narratives (why?), strategies (what?) and operational approaches (how?) - can be observed over recent years. Changes are diverse, ranging from new narratives...

Since the 2000s, the international community has increasingly recognised two basic aspects of development cooperation. First, international development cooperation faces a systemic crisis. Because of the way it is organised and implemented, it is part of the problem it wants solve. As a...

This policy brief discusses the new geopolitical and geo-economic context and its significance for the Global South and the development policies of Western actors. The systemic confrontation between China and the USA, the Russian invasion of Ukraine, but also the seizure of power through a...

Die systemische Konfrontation zwischen China und den USA, die russische Invasion der Ukraine, aber auch die Machtübernahme durch putschende Militärs u.a. im Niger zeigen: Das Umfeld für globale Kooperationsanstrengungen ist deutlich schwieriger geworden. Akteure im Globalen Süden sind in...