For some years the nexus of development and security has been a key conceptual and also political issue. The associated debates are wide-ranging, extending from the basic question of the relationship between development and security to the concrete interaction of military and civil actors in a...

Against the background of a longstanding discussion of advantages of bilateral and multilateral aid approaches the paper discusses mainly two aspects: (i) The distinction between bilateral and multilateral development cooperation is in practice often not clear. In particular, the EU aid approach...

Having already been growing in importance for a number of years, geopolitics as it relates to the Global South has become tremendously more relevant following Russia’s aggression in Ukraine in 2022. Rivalries with China are set to become even more influential in future, determining...

This edited volume provides an assessment of an increasingly fragmented aid system. Development cooperation is fundamentally changing its character in the wake of global economic and political transformations and an ongoing debate about what constitutes, and how best to achieve, global...

How does reforming public financial management (PFM) help to improve governance in developing countries? In both industrialized and developing countries PFM reforms affect fundamental interests of state and governance. Although PFM has steadily grown in importance in development cooperation in...

The present collection of short papers is an experimental, explorative and introspective German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS) project on international and transnational cooperation for development and sustainability. It is the product of internal brainstorming discussions at...