Challenging the Aid Paradigm

1. Introduction: Reinventing Development for the Twenty-First Century?
Jens Stilhoff Sörensen

Part I. Western Currents

2. The Development-Security Nexus in Historical Perspective: Governing the World of Peoples
Mark Duffield

3. From Materialism to Non-materialism in International Development: Revisiting Rostow’s Stages of Growth and Schumacher’s Small is Beautiful

Vanessa Pupavac

4. Aid Policy, Civil Society and Ethnic Polarisation
Jens Stilhoff Sörensen

Part II. Asian Alternatives

5. Challenges or Complements for the West: Is there an ‘Asian’ Model of Aid Emerging?
Marie Söderberg

6. China’s Aid to Africa: Policy Evolution, Characteristics and Its Role
He Wenping

7. Chinese and African Views on Chinese Aid and Trade in Africa
Johan Lagerkvist

8. Chinese Foreign Aid: The Tale of a Silent Enterprise
Yahia Mohamed Mahmoud

9. China in Africa: Any Impact on Development and Aid?
Henning Melber

10. Conclusion: The ‘Bios’ and ‘Geo’ of Contemporary Development-Security Policy
Jens Stilhoff Sörensen

Keywords: Political Science and International Relations, International Relations, Political Economy, Development Policy, Development Studies, Political Science, Globalization