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"This book investigates the geo-politicization of foreign aid in recent years, against a background of global overarching crises such as climate change, conflict, COVID-19, economic crisis, energy shortages and migration. Foreign aid has historically been understood as assisting both with the development objectives of the recipients, and with the trade and geopolitical interests of the donors. In the first decades of the 21st Century, however, this balance has been shifted by a series of complex global challenges. The book argues that donors have now moved towards framing aid as a geopolitical instrument, wherein aid can be given or withheld based on power or political intent, thus imposing the donor's specific values and norms. The book provides an in-depth analysis of this weaponization of foreign aid within a framework of global disruption and ultimately concludes that the world is at a tipping point towards a new socio-political world order. Asking important questions about the power dynamics at play within the aid sector, this book will be an important read for researchers across development studies, political science, international relations, and global affairs"--

The Program Committee for the thirty-sixth Annual Meeting of the Economic History Association began its work in early 1975, after several months of consultation with David Landes, President-elect of the Association. The basic goal of the Committee was two-fold. First, we selected a general theme—"Historical Dimensions of Social and Political Economy"—which would reassert the fundamental and integral importance of society and politics within economic history. It was, and is, our considered judgment that economic history runs a grave risk of losing general appeal and significance if it becomes a latter-day scholasticism focusing almost exclusively on narrowly defined "economic" problems. Second, we wanted to attract to our meeting and Association scholars with varied interests and methodologies within the entire field of economic history broadly conceived.

Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Origins of the 'development' paradigm -- Varied development experiences -- Measuring development? -- The failure of development -- About this book -- 1 What is Development? -- Traditional meanings of development -- Contemporary meanings of development -- Applying development definitions -- Conclusion -- 2 Reassessing Development Theory -- The global context for development ideas and policies -- Theories of modernization -- The challenge of dependency theory -- The Asian miracle: challenges for modernization and dependency approaches -- The rise of neoliberalism: globalization and development theory -- The global financial crisis and emerging challenges to neoliberalism -- 3 The Economics of Development -- The main drivers of growth: competing schools of thought -- Policies to stimulate growth -- Growth and development in a globalizing world: towards a new paradigm? -- 4 Continuing Crises: The Developing World and the Global Financial Crisis -- Global and regional crises in historical context: learning the lessons -- How has the risk of crisis increased in recent years? -- Seeking to understand the causes of crises: the return of Marx, Keynes and Minsky -- Other explanations for the GFC and ideas to prevent a recurrence -- Asia and the global financial crisis -- Africa and the global financial crisis -- Latin America and the global financial crisis -- The GFC and the future of globalization and North-South relations -- 5 Politics and Governance -- The origins of developing countries -- Political identity -- The state and the nation -- Militaries in politics -- Democracy, democratization and regime change -- Regime change -- The state, society and democratization -- State institutions -- Governance -- Conclusion -- 6 Aid and Development -- The purpose of aid.

Regionalization; economic integration; Korea and Taiwan: high-technology interaction; China: diaspora investments; Singapore: audio production; Japan: automotive industry; Korea: networks of high-technology industrial districts; Asia Pacific: urban and regional politics