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Chapter 1. The Russo-ukraine War: a Discursive Introduction -- Chapter 2. Uncertainties of the War: Reframing the Discourse -- Chapter 3. Political Complexities and Problematics of the Russo-ukrainian War -- Chapter 4. A Discontent With the Russo-ukraine War -- Chapter 5. The Sanctions Wars: Impacts and Consequences -- Chapter 6. The Propaganda War and the Fourth Estate -- Chapter 7. Zeitenwende: Nato Renaissance and a New World Order -- Chapter 8. Financing the War and Rebuilding Ukraine -- Chapter 9. Frozen Solutions, Diplomatic Challenges and Geopolitical Uncertainties.

This volume examines the impact of the Trump presidency on development aid. It starts out by describing the rise of national populism, the political landscape and the reasons for rejection of the political establishment, both under Trump and internationally. Next, it gives a historical-political overview of development aid in the post WW-II era and discusses the dominant Washington Consensus doctrine and its failure. It then provides a critique of the Official Development Assistance (ODA) discourse and reviews the political economy of ODA, the discourse, and the conditionalities that are barriers to socio-economic development. The final chapters explore the question of Trumponomics as an alternative to the global neoliberal ODA, and the potential impact of Trumponomics? on ODA. The book concludes with thoughts on the potential future directions for ODA within the?ideals? of Trumponomics and national populism.

Official development assistance and impact assessment : theoretical and practical frameworks / Viktor Jakupec and Max Kelly -- Conceptualizing impact assessment in foreign aid / Max Kelly -- Competing development paradigms and alternative evaluations of aid effectiveness : challenging the dominant neoliberal vision / John McKay -- Aid for trade : a critical analysis / Viktor Jakupec -- The rhetoric and reality of results and impact assessment in donor agencies : a practitioners' perspective / Simon Milligan, Steve Bertram, and Alwyn Chilver -- Beyond aid distribution : aid effectiveness, neoliberal and neostructural reforms in Pacific Island countries / Amerita Ravuvu and Alec Thornton -- Regulatory impact assessment : the forgotten agenda in ODA / Viktor Jakupec and Max Kelly -- Can we assess the overall impact of development agencies? : the example of corporate results frameworks in multilateral development banks / Marc M. Cohen -- Assessing the impact of knowledge on development partners / William Loxley -- From evidence to action : stakeholder coordination as a determinant of evaluation use / Mateusz Pucilowski -- Inside the black box : modeling the inner workings of social development programs / Sebastian Lemire and Gordon Freer -- Impact assessment and official development assistance : ethnographic research of the World Bank's community-based rural development projects in Ghana / Kwadwo Adusei-Asante and Peter Hancock -- Finding balance : improving monitoring to improve impact assessments of development programmes / Donna Loveridge -- Impact assessment in practice : case studies from Save the Children programs in Lao PDR and Afghanistan / Veronica Bell and Yasamin Alttahir -- The nongovernmental development sector and impact assessment / Jonathan J. Makuwira -- Impact assessment : from theory to practice / Viktor Jakupec and Max Kelly

Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; About the authors; Abbreviations; 1. Introduction; Preamble; Political economy analysis at the crossroads of illiberalism and populism; The structure of the book; Note; References; 2. Political Economy Analysis: A distorted view of reality; Introduction; Delineating Political Economy Analysis; Aid, economic growth and development; A paradigm shift; Applying a paradigm shift to PEA; From paradigm shift to international political economy: a rationale for a political economy analysis theoretical framework; Conclusion

Across the world the Western dominated international aid system is being challenged. The rise of right-wing populism, de-globalisation, the advance of illiberal democracy and the emergence of non-Western donors onto the international stage are cutting right to the heart of the entrenched neoliberal aid paradigm. Foreign Aid in the Age of Populism explores the impact of these challenges on development aid, arguing that there is a need to bring politics back into development aid; not just the politics of economics, but power relations internally in aid organisations, in recipient nations, and between donor and recipient. In particular, the book examines how aid agencies are using Political Economy Analysis (PEA) to inform their decision making and to push aid projects through, whilst failing to engage meaningfully with wider politics. The book provides an in-depth critical analysis of the Washington Consensus model of political economy analysis, contrasting it with the emerging Beijing Consensus, and suggesting that PEA has to be recast in order to accommodate new and emerging paradigms. A range of alternative theoretical frameworks are suggested, demonstrating how PEA could be used to provide a deeper and richer understanding of development aid interventions, and their impact and effectiveness. This book is perfect for students and researchers of development, global politics and international relations, as well as also being useful for practitioners and policy makers within government, development aid organisations, and global institutions.

Der vorliegende Beitrag bezieht sich auf das höhere Bildungswesen und entwickelt drei Thesen: (1) Bildung ist und war schon immer ein politischer Akt. Entweder wurde Bildung als ein politischer Akt zur Erhaltung oder zur Umstrukturierung der bestehenden sozialen Gesellschaftsformen benutzt; (2) Humanismus und Liberalismus haben entsprechende Parallelen in ihren politischen Ideologien, wie Konservatismus und Neo- Konservatismus, Liberalismus und Neo-Liberalismus, Neue Rechte und Neue Linke und diese wirken sich auf die sozialen Strukturen der gesellschaftlichen Differenzierung aus; (3) Die politischen Ideologien mit den entsprechenden bildungspolitischen Zielen fördern neue Eliten und dadurch eine soziale Differenzierung. Diese Thesen werden aus der Perspektive der Umstrukturierung des Hochschulwesens in den letzten Jahrzehnten des 20. und Anfang des 21. Jahrhunderts unter Bezugnahme der dominierenden ideologischen und politischen Aspekte der Hochschulbildung zur Diskussion gestellt. Der Beitrag charakterisiert zugleich die Bildung in der zweiten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts als einen politischen Akt, wobei das höhere Bildungswesen als eine private oder öffentliche Institution zur wissenschaftlichen und professionellen Wissensvermittlung zum Nutzen des Einzelnen zur Debatte gestellt wird. Daraus wird die Frage abgeleitet, welche politischen und sozialphilosophischen Ideologien als Regelungsmechanismen die höhere Bildung beeinflussen. (ICI2).

Foreign aid and world order(s), a political economy of crisis and disruptors -- A critique of the neo-liberal world order : a foreign aid perspective -- Crises and disruptors of world order(s) : the first decades of the 21st century -- A critique of contemporary foreign aid -- The geo-politicization of aid -- Geopolitical crises and the changing role of aid.

"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"--