Cooperation and Cunning
In: Dissent: a quarterly of politics and culture, Band 59, Heft 3, S. 87-92
ISSN: 1946-0910
Review of Together: The Rituals, Pleasures and Politics of Cooperation by Richard Sennett
In: Dissent: a quarterly of politics and culture, Band 59, Heft 3, S. 87-92
ISSN: 1946-0910
Review of Together: The Rituals, Pleasures and Politics of Cooperation by Richard Sennett
Since China and India ("Asian drivers") and other "rising powers," especially Brazil and South Africa, began their steady climb, international cooperation has been faced not only with new opportunities, but also with a number of specific challenges. During the political debate new variants of colonial relations have also been identified from time to time. A sober look at South-South cooperation shows, however, that neither hasty condemnation nor euphoria is helpful: what is needed is an objective debate in which all the actors involved in development cooperation participate. To clarify the role of South-South cooperation, the following subjects are outlined: Current tendencies in South-South cooperation (trade, investment, finance) South-South cooperation: the role of the Asian drivers in African countries Prospects for South-South cooperation and recommendations for international cooperation. In the past decade South-South trade has expanded more quickly than North-South trade. South-South investment too has shown unprecedented dynamism. Investors from the South often have important regional know-how, use appropriate technologies and prove more willing to take business risks in a difficult political environment. A further indicator of the increased importance of South-South cooperation is the fact that countries in the South have become an additional source of official development assistance (ODA). The data on the actual scale of South-South development cooperation are still fragmentary, however.Current trade and investment flows between China and Africa are substantially driven by complementary structures in the two regions: African raw materials for Chinese industrial goods. In contrast, Indian trade and investment flows to Africa largely concern manufacturing industry and the service sector. Recently, however, India has similarly stepped up its foreign direct investment (FDI) in the oil sector. In China, India and most other countries in the South there is in fact no clear distinction between concessionary and commercial flows.In general, China's and India's development cooperation is well integrated into their foreign, economic and security policies. Conceptually, it is guided by the Bandung Principles, especially that of non-interference in the recipient country's internal affairs. Conditionality along the lines of the OECD/DAC's aid effectiveness concept is rejected by most countries of the South. While the positive sides of the current South-South dynamism are to be seen primarily in the increased inflows of resources, especially to the benefit of poor developing countries, many African states face major challenges because of increased dependence on raw materials and the greater pressure of competition from Asian countries in the case of light manufactures. The high-level dialogues between the G8 and the five leading anchor countries (Brazil, China, India, Mexico and South Africa) announced during the Heiligendamm process may help considerably to ensure that benefits are derived from closer South-South cooperation and that conceivable risks are discussed openly.
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Result of a joint research project conducted by the Institute for International Political Studies (ISPI) and the Center for Strategic Studies under the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan (SAM), the volume "Cooperation in Eurasia: Linking Identity, Security, and Development" aims to shed light on the drivers and on the rationale behind regional cooperation in Eurasia. In particular it investigates and ponder the weight of identity issues, security perceptions, and economic development needs for interstate cooperation in the Eurasian context, by taking into account both supra-national frameworks and regional scenarios. Accordingly, the book is divided in two parts, focusing respectively on "Cooperation and Competition at Multilateral Level" and on "Regional Case Studies".
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In: Entwicklung und Zusammenarbeit: E + Z, Band 41, Heft 3
ISSN: 0721-2178
In: Forced migration review, Heft 31, S. 48-50
ISSN: 1460-9819
Discusses the establishment of strategies for preventing both displacement & conflicts over scarce resources. It is maintained that every adaptation strategy involves developing a clear picture of the expected climate impacts, considering those impacts alongside the vulnerabilities in order to come up with possible adaptation measures, & determining the governance aspects. Efforts that have been made for disaster risk management in Mozambique & Indonesia are described, along with migration as an adaptive response when a region is no longer capable of sustaining livelihoods. Adapted from the source document.
In: Lex localis: journal of local self-government, Band 17, Heft 3, S. 721-733
Due to the extreme heterogeneity of municipal sizes resulting in a number of small municipalities that are struggling to meet regulatory demands and standards, Slovenia should be the poster child for inter-municipal cooperation. This, coupled with the absence of a second level of local government, should make for flourishing inter-municipal cooperation. This article demonstrates how sound arguments for the establishment of inter-municipal cooperation do not always achieve favourable results – as in a vibrant and productive web of inter-municipal dialogue and cooperation. It was only after significant governmental subsidies were implemented in Slovenia that the municipalities initiated a cooperation process; however, that process only extended to subsidised tasks. The results of the empirical analyses show that a bottom-up process might take too long a time, while a local government (legal) framework may inhibit cooperation due to the fear of losing authority over municipal tasks.
In: http://hdl.handle.net/2027/hvd.32044107907362
"Prepared in part for use in cooperation with the campaign for world economic cooperation conducted by the National peace conference."--p. 24. ; Mode of access: Internet.
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In: Global environmental politics, Band 20, Heft 4, S. 73-98
ISSN: 1536-0091
World Affairs Online
Should a subset of member states of a federation be allowed to form a sub-union on some policy issue? When centralization is not politically feasible, allowing an enhanced cooperation agreement among a subset of countries permits the latter to gain benefits which would otherwise be lost. However, if in the future the excluded countries also want to join, the fact that a sub-union has been formed in the past may change the status quo to the advantage of the first comers. We show that as long as countries can commit to harmonize at a policy which also takes into account the utility of the excluded country, sub-union formation may be optimal. The relative advantage of a sub-union towards centralization increases when transfers are costly. On the other hand, if commitment is not possible then excluded countries may be penalized. We use these results to discuss of the newly introduced rules for enhanced cooperation agreements in the European Union, suggesting that they might lead to increased centralization.
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In: Review of international political economy, Band 14, Heft 4, S. 626-652
ISSN: 1466-4526
In: Environmental policy and law: the journal for decision-makers, Band 39, Heft 4-5
ISSN: 0378-777X