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Four futures for a Global development cooperation system in flux: policy at the intersection of geopolitics, norm contestation and institutional shift

Klingebiel, Stephan / Andy Sumner (2025)
Policy Brief 11/2025

This brief situates the crisis of Official Development Assistance (ODA) within a broader transformation of global development cooperation. Today’s challenge goes beyond shrinking aid budgets; it reflects deeper pressures on the post-Cold War development consensus and its institutional architecture.

Navigating the tipping point: four futures for global development cooperation

Klingebiel, Stephan / Andy Sumner (2025)
Externe Publikationen

In a new policy brief, Stephan Klingebiel and Andy Sumner discuss how and why the very foundations of international aid and development are being shaken by geopolitical shifts, contested norms, and institutional upheaval.

Social protection and coloniality: learning from the past and present: Tanzania case study

Lambin, Roosa / Winnie C. Muangi (2025)
Discussion Paper 20/2025

Mainland Tanzania grapples with colonial legacies, donor influence, and structural exclusions in its social protection arrangements. This Discussion Paper reveals how external influences and domestic factors intersect to shape an evolving social protection landscape.

Trumps G7-Abflug: Gestaltende Kooperation auch ohne die USA

Hornidge, Anna-Katharina (2025)
Externe Publikationen

Wir benötigen vertrauensvolle Partnerschaften als Gegenmacht zu zentralisierten Machtpolitiken, die zeigen: Gestaltende Kooperationspolitik ist auch ohne die USA möglich. Die Kolumne „Gastwirtschaft“.

Rebuilding legitimacy for Global Governance: the case for a new independent commission

Sumner, Andy / Stephan Klingebiel / Arief Anshory Yusuf (2025)
Externe Publikationen

The new Washington dissensus: Trump’s five principles for global development policy

Sumner, Andy / Stephan Klingebiel (2025)
Externe Publikationen

The Trump administration’s actions related to development policy are rooted in the “America First” doctrine. Their approach is not in line with internationally agreed objectives but narrowly aligned with perceived national interests.

’We do not see the problem, but agree with your solution’: the European Court of Auditors and the politics of evaluation in EU development policy

Bergmann, Julian (2025)
Externe Publikationen

Frozen in time: how to rethink the role of foreign aid in FFD4

Janus, Heiner (2025)
Externe Publikationen

Clearing up misunderstandings

Klingebiel, Stephan (2024)
Externe Publikationen

Although the reality of development policy has changed significantly in recent years, public and political discourse is still narrowly focused on the field’s altruistic or humanitar-ian goals. More must be done to demon-strate how relevant development policy is to solving global problems, especially today.

Mit Entwicklungszusammenarbeit gegen Putin

Bergmann, Julian (2024)
Externe Publikationen

Im Vorfeld der Ukraine-Konferenz gibt es Zweifel daran, in dieser Phase des Krieges über den Wiederaufbau zu sprechen. Die Kritik ignoriert jedoch wesentliche Effekte, die sich aus der zivilen Unterstützung der Ukraine ergeben – auch und gerade in Kriegszeiten.

Protecting democracy from abroad

Nowack, Daniel / Julia Leininger (2021)
Forschungsdaten

Populism and development policy: the case of European populist radical right parties

Hackenesch, Christine (2025)
Externe Publikationen

Allocating international loss and damage finance through national climate funds: prospects for African LDCs

Aleksandrova, Mariya / Washington Onyango Kanyangi / Assouhan Jonas Atchadé / Joanes Atela / Charles Tonui (2025)
Policy Brief 6/2025

The New Washington Dissensus: the 5 principles that are defining the Trump administration’s vision of global development cooperation

Klingebiel, Stephan / Andy Sumner (2025)
Externe Publikationen

The Trump administration’s vision for development cooperation is becoming clearer. We identify 5 principles seemingly guiding actions.

Gemeinsame Vergangenheit - Gemeinsame Zukunft? Chinas Engagement in Afrika 70 Jahre nach der Bandung Konferenz

Hackenesch, Christine (2025)
Externe Publikationen 2025/12

The elephants in the room: uncomfortable perspectives on the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development

Klingebiel, Stephan (2025)
Mitarbeiter sonstige

The European Union’s emerging position for FfD4: means (of implementation) to what end?

Keijzer, Niels (2025)
Mitarbeiter sonstige

Tomorrow’s global development landscape: mapping trends and reform dynamics

Janus, Heiner / Niels Keijzer / Svea Koch (2024)
Policy Brief 4/2024

This paper analyses structural factors of the institutional inertia in international cooperation and formulates expectations for where new reform impetus might come from. It maps and links key reform proposals for the global development system, with a specific focus on public financial flows.

Everything, everywhere, all at once? Donor bureaucrats struggle with four dimensions of development effectiveness

Esser, Daniel E. / Heiner Janus (2025)
Externe Publikationen

EU-Africa cooperation on security, peace and humanitarian aid in the post-Cotonou era: an asymmetric partnership

Bergmann, Julian / Ina Friesen / Mark Furness (2025)
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