Furia, Annalisa,

The foreign aid regime : gift-giving, states and global dis/order / Annalisa Furia, Research Fellow, University of Bologna, Italy. - viii, 137 pages ; 23 cm. - Palgrave pivot . - Palgrave pivot. .

Includes bibliographical references (pages 116-130) and index.

Introduction -- 1. Foreign Aid Is Gift: Modernising the order; The Maussian gift; Many gifts; Internationalising the gift -- 2. The Foreign Aid Regime: The new name of peace; Development can be developed; Countries and peoples that cannot be trusted; The logic of the gift -- 3. Dis/ordering the World: Conflict, poverty and quasi-states; Cooperation, friendship and justice; Conclusion: playing communitas against immunitas, and the other way round.

9781137505897 Hardback 1137505893 Hardback

2015452446

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Economic assistance--Political aspects.

HC60 / .F857 2015

338.91 / FUR-F