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Join us to hear from Dr Laura Trajber Waisbich on her new book Southern Powers and Global Development: Responsible but Different.
King's Brazil Institute warmly invite you to join us to hear from and exchange with Dr Laura Trajber Waisbich on her new book Southern Powers and Global Development: Responsible but Different (Bristol University Press, 2025).
The book is a result of of over 15 years of multi-scalar and multi-sited research on Southern powers (in particular Brazil, China and India) in global development and the disputes over their roles and responsibilities in an increasingly fragmented world.
About the book
Amid a rapidly evolving global development landscape, this book investigates two core ideas in development cooperation — responsibility and accountability — as they take shape within Southern-led development cooperation. Drawing on multi-site and multi-scalar research across Brazil, China, and India, it traces how diplomatic and domestic foreign-policy processes debate, negotiate, and operationalise emerging notions of donor responsibility and accountability in South-South cooperation.
The book reveals how these Southern powers justify, manage, and attempt to improve the performance of their international development engagements for diverse audiences at home and abroad. In doing so, it uncovers the uneven ways in which Southern actors are being integrated into the global donorship regime — simultaneously engaging with and contesting established norms and ways of doing and justifying “doing development abroad”.
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Director, King's Brazil Institute
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