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The development cooperation system is in flux, as donor retrenchment, US policy shifts, and rising Southern alternatives drive a fundamental contest over its purpose and future shape, writes @andypsumner.bsky.social

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How Social Science Fiction Could Transform Development Research: Extending our Methodological Horizons By Laura Camfield In an era of increasing complexity and uncertainty, conventional methodological approaches to pressing development concerns such as extreme income inequality often fall short. In …

Social Science Fiction "helps us imagine alternative social orders and institutional change, proving particularly useful for hypothesis generation"

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Rebuilding Legitimacy for Global Governance: The Case for a New Independent Commission By Andy Sumner, Stephan Klingebiel and Arief Anshory Yusuf The global landscape of development cooperation is fracturing. The promise of the 2030 Agenda and the pursuit of the Sustainable Developme…

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"A new Independent North–South Commission could offer a credible response to today’s fragmentation by providing a structured space for international dialogue grounded in fairness, feasibility, and forward-thinking."

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www.developmentresearch.eu?p=2283

Africafé : Aid and Development in Africa YouTube video by Policy Center for the New South

This episode of Africafé examines how Africa’s #DevelopmentAid landscape is shifting amid major cuts by traditional donors and changing global priorities.

- With @stephanklingebiel.bsky.social and @andypsumner.bsky.social.

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Development cooperation is no longer evolving quietly. It’s being renegotiated in the open. Is 2025 the tipping point? asks @andypsumner.bsky.social and @stephanklingebiel.bsky.social

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2025 was a busy year for our blog, with 47 posts published, 10 "Decolonising Stories" and 10 in the "Trump and Development" series

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YouTube video by Policy Center for the New South Crisis or Opportunity? Multilateralism in a Polycentric World

@policycenterns.bsky.social hosted a seminar titled “Crisis or Opportunity? #Multilateralism in a Polycentric World" with contributions from Len Ishmael, @andypsumner.bsky.social &
@stephanklingebiel.bsky.social.

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Development cooperation is no longer evolving quietly. It’s being renegotiated in the open. Is 2025 the tipping point? asks @andypsumner.bsky.social and @stephanklingebiel.bsky.social

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Friends not Foes? Why Development Economics and Development Studies still need each other
By Professor @andypsumner.bsky.social, @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social via @globaldevinst.bsky.social
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@andypsumner.bsky.social & @stephanklingebiel.bsky.social assess how President Trump’s decision to quit 66 int. organisations continues the administration’s attempt to reshape the operating space for global #DevelopmentPolicy: www.globalpolicyjournal.com/blog/15/01/2... @globalpolicy.bsky.social

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#GlobalCooperation is under stress: does it represent a crisis or opportunity, and what does workable cooperation look like in a polycentric world?

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With #Trump ’s return to the #WhiteHouse in January 2025, a significant phase in #InternationalAffairs, including global #DevelopmentPolicy, began.
@stephanklingebiel.bsky.social & @andypsumner.bsky.social describe the shift as the “New Washington Dissensus” (NWD).

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Call for Abstracts - EADI/IOB 2026: Shaping Sustainable Futures: Global Challenges, (G)local Solutions? 29 June – 2 July 2026, Institute of Development Policy, University of Antwerp, Belgium. Deadline for submissions: 21 December 2025

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'Global development cooperation at a crossroads - ground rules for partnership in a fragmented world?' held on 28 November joint with EADI 🌎

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In @globalpolicy.bsky.social, @andypsumner.bsky.social & @stephanklingebiel.bsky.social argue that the old assumptions about who sets development policy norms, who pays, and who decides what counts as “cooperation” no longer seem to hold.

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Three Ideal Types for the Future of Development Cooperation By José Antonio Alonso The international aid system is undergoing one of the most acute crises in its history. Although it is often portrayed primarily as a budgetary crisis—intensified by decision…

"Contemporary scholarship demonstrates that development is multidimensional, path-dependent, and often non-linear; that the experience of industrialized countries is neither universally transferable nor normatively desirable"

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Global Development Cooperation at a Crossroads: What Ground Rules for Partnership in a Fragmented World? Online, 28 November 2025 Global development cooperation faces an era of profound uncertainty. Declining aid budgets, rising nationalism, and geopolitical rivalry are eroding the shared...

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With Gloria Amézquita, Arief Anshory Yusuf, Taekyoon Kim, Emma Mawdsley, Iliana Olivié, Andrea Ordonez, Sebeka Plaatjie & @andypsumner.bsky.social

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Will the UK and the EU be Norm-Makers or Norm-Takers at the G7 and the G20? Competing visions of the global development architecture in 2030 - Policy Brief Global development policy is going through an upheaval following the cuts in ODA (Official Development Assistance) by leading donors and the knock-on effects

@andypsumner.bsky.social and @stephanklingebiel.bsky.social ask: What does the #GlobalDevelopment architecture look like in this world five years from now?

The experts see four stylised visions emerging in competition. Which is most likely to prevail?
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The G7 and Global Development Architecture: Gradual Shift or Pivotal Moment? By Andy Sumner and Stephan Klingebiel In late 2025 the development cooperation architecture or system is being openly renegotiated rather than quietly adjusted. Will it be a gradual shift or w…

"This is not technical language. It sounds like a political signal that the G7 intends to reshape how development cooperation is organised, coordinated and justified."
www.developmentresearch.eu?p=2398

The G7 and Global Development Architecture: Gradual Shift or Pivotal Moment? By Andy Sumner and Stephan Klingebiel In late 2025 the development cooperation architecture or system is being openly renegotiated rather than quietly adjusted. Will it be a gradual shift or w…

"Governments, parliaments, and non-state actors — who support what until recently was a broad global consensus on sustainable development need to find ways to counter the destructive influence of the Trump administration on established forums such as the G7 and G20"
www.developmentresearch.eu?p=2398

In our latest blog, @andypsumner.bsky.social (@kings-sga.bsky.social) and @stephanklingebiel.bsky.social (@idos-research.bsky.social) take the recent G7 Development Ministers’ Chair’s Summary as basis for their analysis

In a new @globalpolicy.bsky.social article, @andypsumner.bsky.social (@eadi.bsky.social) and @stephanklingebiel.bsky.social take a look at the #G7 and the #GlobalDevelopment Architecture. What role does the year 2025 play?

🔗 www.globalpolicyjournal.com/blog/06/11/2...

Development cooperation at a tipping point: how, why and through what mechanisms do policy norms break? @eadi.bsky.social Blog and @idos-research.bsky.social working paper.

By @stephanklingebiel.bsky.social and @andypsumner.bsky.social
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