In recent years western aid agencies have come to embrace the language and practices of "ownership". This signals a shift away from conditionality as the dominant mode of relationship between these agencies and recipient states. The principle concern of this paper is to locate this shift in the...

1. The sovereign order -- 2. Development theory in the sovereign order -- 3. Development institutions in the sovereign order -- 4. Development practice in the sovereign order -- 5. The liberal order -- 6. Development theory in the liberal order -- 7. Development institutions in the liberal order...

1. Liberalism and social transformation -- 2. The World Bank, sovereignty and development -- 3. From structural adjustment to good governance -- 4. Governance, liberalism and social transformation -- 5. Transformation in practice -- 6. Sovereignty, development and the liberal project.

America is in decline, and the rise of the East suggests a bleak future for the world's only superpower: so goes the conventional wisdom. But what if the traditional measures of national status are no longer as important as they once were? What if America's well-being was assessed according to...

1. Security and global governance / Jamie Gaskarth -- 2. Governing development : power, poverty and policy / David Hulme and James Scott -- 3. Global financial governance : taming financial innovation / Anastasia Nesvetailova and Carlos Belli -- 4. Corruption and global governance / Charles...

This paper attempts a first-cut listing of global public goods and international spillover activities, as well as providing some data on their global distribution alongside basic correlational analysis. Few if any goods are “pure” global public goods and there is a spectrum of the extent of...