Challenging the Aid Paradigm Western Currents and Asian Alternatives [Hardcover]

Challenging the Aid Paradigm critically examines central aspects of Western international aid policy, while at the same time exploring non-western,?especially Chinese,?aid and assesses to what extent these may be competitive or complementary.Introduction: Reinventing Development for the 21st Century?; J.S.S?rensen PART I: WESTERN CURRENTS The Development-Security Nexus in Historical Perspective: Governing the World of Peoples; M.Duffield From Materialism to Non-Materialism in International Development: Revisiting Rostow's Stages of Growth and Schumacher's Small is Beautiful ;? V.Pupavac Aid Policy, Civil Society and Ethnic Polarization; J.S.S?rensen PART II: ASIAN ALTERNATIVES Challenges or Complements for the West: Is There an Asian Model of Aid Emerging?; M.S?derberg China's Aid to Africa: Policy Evolution, Characteristics and its Role; H.Wenping Chinese and African Views on Chinese Aid and Trade in Africa; J.Lagerkvist Chinese Foreign Aid: The tale of a silent enterprise; Y.Mohamed-Mahmood China in Africa: Any Impact on Development and Aid?; H.Melber Conclusion: The 'Bios' and 'Geo' of Contemporary Development-Security Policy; J.S.S?rensenMARK DUFFIELD Professor of Development Politics, University of Bristol, UKVANESSA PUPAVAC Lecturer in International Relations, University of Nottingham, UKMARIE S?DERBERG Professor of Economics and Director of the European Institute for Japanese Studies, Stockholm School of Economics, SwedenHE WENPING Professor in the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and Director of the African Studies Department, Institute of West Asian and African Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, BeijingJOHAN LAGERKVIST Research Fellow in Sinology, Swedish Institute of International Affairs, SwedenYAHIA MOHAMED MAHMOOD Research Fellow, Department of Cultural and Economic Geography, University of Lund, SwedenHENNING MELBER Director, Dag Hammarsk?ld Foundation, Sweden