1st Edition
Global Economic Governance and the Development Practices of the Multilateral Development Banks
Part One: Explaining the Policies of the MDBs Chapter One: Susan Park (University of Sydney) and Jonathan R. Strand (University of Nevada Las Vegas), Global Economic Governance and the Development Practices of the Multilateral Development Banks. Chapter Two: Yasumasa Komori (Michigan State University), The Asian Development Bank: Joining the Fight Against Corruption? Chapter Three: Kenneth J. Retzl (University of Nevada, Las Vegas), The Inter-American Development Bank, Poverty Alleviation, and the Millennium Development Goals. Chapter Four: Anders Uhlin (Lund University), Civil Society and Policy Reforms in the Asian Development Bank. Chapter Five: Karen A. Mingst (University of Kentucky), The African Development Bank: From Follower to Broker and Partner. Chapter Six: Daniel B. Braaten (Texas Lutheran University), Ambivalent Engagement: Human Rights and the Multilateral Development Banks Part Two: The Role of the MDBs in the International Political Economy Chapter Seven: Jonathan R. Strand and Michael W. Trevathan (University of Nevada, Las Vegas), Implications of Accommodating Rising Powers for the Regional Development Banks. Chapter Eight: Chris Humphrey (University of Zurich), The "Hassle Factor" of MDB Lending and Borrower Demand in Latin America. Chapter Nine: Stuart Shields (Manchester University), The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development as Organic Intellectual of Neoliberal Common Sense in Post-Communist Transition. Chapter Ten: Tina M. Zappile (Richard Stockton College), Sub-Regional Development Banks: Development as Usual? Chapter Eleven: Jonathan R. Strand (as above) and Susan Park (as above): The RDBs in the Twenty-First Century
Biography
Susan Park is an Associate Professor in International Relations at the University of Sydney. Susan has been a Visiting Scholar at George Washington University, the London School of Economics, at American University and a Visiting Scholar at the Centennial Centre for Political Science and Public Affairs in Washington, DC.
Jonathan R. Strand is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Previously he taught at Niagara University and held a research position at the United Nations University’s Institute of Advanced Studies (Japan).
