Alexei Jones, Sophie Desmidt, San Bilal and Sara Tessema Manshlot argue that the language around ‘mutual interests’ and ‘mutually beneficial partnerships’ is appealing, but ask: What does it actually ...

By Abdullah Qayomi Between 2001 and 2021, Afghanistan received more international development assistance than almost any country in modern history. Nevertheless, the Afghan state fell apart within …

In November 2019, I sat across the table from an older African professor — a well accomplished intellectual, the quintessential renaissance man

By Marine Gauthier / part of our “Share your Decolonising Story” project A Personal Reckoning with Expertise My engagement with international development has always been entangled with postcolonial…

Philippe Van Damme examines the substantive challenge in regulating the Global Europe instrument: reconciling EU geopolitical ambitions with its commitments to a rules- and values-based international ...

Development Studies (DS) is a Northern-led multidisciplinary discipline and it remains strongly institutionalised

By Anabel Marin and Santiago Cunial The global race for minerals is accelerating. Minerals like lithium, copper, and nickel are increasingly treated as the “new oil” of the energy transition and ot…

Interview with Aram Ziai, Chair of Development and Postcolonial Studies, University of Kassel, Germany / part of our “Share your Decolonising Story” project Professor Aram Ziai is an academic who h…

IGDC, in collaboration with our partners at UFBA, Brazil, have developed a series of podcasts and associated blogs which explore and explain methods for decolonising global development research

By Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven At a moment when the United States has recently kidnapped the Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro, assassinated the Iranian supreme leader Ali Hosseini Khamenei, is plotti…

Development Studies (DS) is a Northern-led multidisciplinary discipline and it remains strongly institutionalised

By Will LaFleur What is the relationship between extractivism, agriculture, and a sustainable future? As I started the fieldwork for my doctoral studies, this question sat at the heart of my inquir…

As the boundaries between war and peace blur and rapid advances in artificial intelligence give way to new “narrative wars”, contextualising what is happening is becoming even more critical to the future of our world order, writes Geneva Graduate Institute director Marie-Laure Salles.

By Keetie Roelen“You need a new vacuum cleaner? Can you prove that your current one is really broken?” This was the response Hanny received from the welfare office in the Dutch city of Tilburg when…

By Abdullah Qayomi Between 2001 and 2021, Afghanistan received more international development assistance than almost any country in modern history. Nevertheless, the Afghan state fell apart within …

By Sabrina Chakori Post-growth entrepreneurship: the need for non-extractivist models There is growing recognition that responding to the socio-ecological crisis requires more than technological fi…