Introduction

  • Global Development and International Relations: The State of the Question
  • Nation-State and Development
  • Transformations in the Field of Authority, Territory and Sovereignty and Their Implications for Cooperation, Aid and Development
  • Denationalization and Deterritorialization
  • Offshoring in Contemporary Economies
  • Decentralization and Development
  • Nation-State and Its Challenges in the Policies of Liberalization of Global Public Goods
  • International Organizations, Development and Business
  • The Evolution of Anglo-Saxon and Francophone Thought in the Field of Aid, Cooperation and Development
  • New Political Foundations of Aid, Cooperation and Development

New Architecture of Development

  • The Right to Development
  • Development, Business and Human Rights
  • Management of the Notion of Property: New Regimes of Land and Water Ownership
  • Partnership: PPP and Its Forms of Representation in the Business and Development Market: NGO-Corporate Sector Partnership > State-Private Sector Partnership > Private-Private Partnership > International Organizations-Business Partnership…
  • Global Partnership for Development
  • Partnerships and Sustainable Development
  • Governance of Development, Cooperation and Aid in Northern and Southern Countries
  • Emergence of Private Business Actors in the Arena of Aid, Cooperation and Development
  • United Nations, Private Business Sector and the Management Policies of Aid and Cooperation for Development
  • European Union and the New Policies of Cooperation, International Aid and Business: The European Consensus on Development
  • New Modalities of Aid and the Notions of Fragile States/Weak States and Small States
  • International Conference on Financing for Development, Monterrey 2002
  • Rome Declaration on Harmonization 2003
  • Effectiveness of International Aid for Development 2005
  • Accra High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness, 2008
  • Doha, International Conference on Financing for Development 2008
  • Busan High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness 2011

Delegation of Power and Development

  • State Engagement and Disengagement in Development
  • Authority and Development: New Directions
  • Authority and Power and Interdependence Relations Between the Sub-National and Transnational Scales of Development
  • Decentralization and Deconcentration: Decentralized Decision-Making Structures; Framework for Mechanisms of Local and Territorial Development
  • Delegation of Government Power to Private Actors or Private Parties
  • Delegation to Independent Regulatory Bodies
  • Delegation and Cross-Border Decentralized Cooperation: The State of the Question

Stakeholders in Development

  • Organization for the Harmonization of Business Law in Africa, OHADA: Treaty on the Harmonization of Business Law in Africa
  • Multi-Stakeholder: International Aid Transparency Initiative (2008) IATI, Accra Declaration: The Paris Declaration and Accra Agenda for Action AAA: Aid Effectiveness
  • SF: Stakeholder Forum for a Sustainable Future
  • NEPAD – The New Partnership for Africa’s Development
  • From Cotonou to EPAs: Economic Partnership Agreements – ACP: Africa, Caribbean and Pacific
  • EU-ACP: European Union and ACP Africa, Caribbean and Pacific

Global Development and Business in Latin America, Asia and Africa

  • Business and Global Development
  • Business-to-Business for Development
  • Business Partnership Network
  • Business Action
  • Business Cooperation
  • Business for Development
  • Formation of Partnerships for Development / Building Partnerships for Development
  • Business Partnership for Development
  • Business and Development Network
  • Business Coalition

Non-governmental organizations, bilateral and multilateral cooperation and aid agencies, transnational corporations, academic centers, governments…

State, International Organizations and Regulation in the Arena of Aid, Cooperation and Development

  • State, International Organizations and Regulation/Deregulation Policies in Cooperation, Aid and Development
  • International Standardization Policies
  • Political Legitimacy of Actors in Cooperation, Aid and Development
  • Role of Intergovernmental Agencies, NGOs, Think Tanks, Foundations, European Union in the Field of Regulation of Cooperation and Development
  • Business and Self-Regulation of Development: The Theoretical Implications of Self-Regulatory Approaches to Development
  • Rule of Law and Development: ROL: Role of ROL in the Diffusion of International Norms and Codes of Cooperation, Aid and Development

Emerging Economies, Global Development and North-South/South-South Relations

  • Industrialization, Deindustrialization, New Economy in the North and South
  • Emergence of New Actors in the Global Economy: South Africa, Brazil, China, India
  • Emerging Economies or Emerging Markets: Definitions, Meaning, Implications

Challenges of the New Paradigms of Global Development

  • Europe and Southern Countries in Territorial Development: What Relationships?
  • Engagement of the State/Government and Business in Development
  • State Framework and Market Framework: Paradigms, Methods and Processes
  • Self-Regulation of the Economy and Development
  • Corporate Actors in the Field of Development
  • Multi-Level/Multi-Actor Interdependence Relations and Development, in the North and South
  • Global Partnership and Development: Dynamics of Interdependence Between Cooperation, Business and Development. What Challenges?
  • Millennium Development Goals MDGs 2000-2015: The Challenges of the MDGs, Actors and Paradigms
  • New Approaches to Regionalism and Territory