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Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- Acknowledgments -- List of acronyms -- 1 Introduction: On the postcolonial crossroads -- The comparison and the analysis -- Why Slovakia and Austria? -- The analyzed actors -- An overview of the book -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 2 Slovakia and Austria as development donors -- The origins of development apparatuses: development induced from the outside -- Weak commitment to aid -- The regional focus and the national interest: a possible ranking based on the recipients -- The non-governmental sphere: too close for comfort -- Motivations for development cooperation: altruism, egoism, and professional interest -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 3 Hierarchization of "us" over "them" and its disruptions -- The continuity with the colonial hierarchy in development discourse and its effects -- Logocentrism, the general law of development and their disruptions -- Power in partnership: Austroprojekt's Plan of Operation -- Disrupting the development hierarchy through deliberate positivism -- Fighting "their" negative representations and stereotypes -- An example of deliberate positivism: an interview with a respondent from CARE -- Conclusion -- Slovaks hierarchize more often and in a sharper way than Austrians -- Deliberate positivism and its limits -- Notes -- 4 (De)Politicization of unequal power relations in development discourse -- The political, politics, police, politicization, and depoliticization -- Forms of depoliticization -- Spatial depoliticization -- Depoliticization through technological solutions, omissions of agents, an explicit consensus invocation, and temporal depoliticzation -- Forms of politicization -- The benign government and the potential for politicization through the good governance and policy coherence discourses