1st Edition
New Donors on the Postcolonial Crossroads Eastern Europe and Western Aid
By Tomáš Profant
Copyright 2019
210 Pages
by
Routledge
210 Pages
2 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
210 Pages
2 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Eastern European countries were said to be playing catch up with the West, and in the field of development cooperation, they were classified as 'new donors.' This book aims to problematize this distinction between old and new development donors, applying an East–West dimension to global Orientalism discourse. The book uses a novel double postcolonial... Read more
Acknowledgements
List of Acronyms
- Introduction: On the Postcolonial Crossroads
- Slovakia and Austria as Development Donors
- Hierarchization of "Us" over "Them" and Its Disruptions
- (De)Politicization of Unequal Power Relations in Development Discourse
- (De)Legitimization of Development
- Conclusion
Index
Biography
Tomáš Profant is a senior researcher at the Institute of International Relations in Prague, Czechia, and a lecturer at Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia.
