Power and Horizontality in South-South Development Cooperation
Jurek Seifert
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Jurek Seifert, Power and Horizontality in South-South Development Cooperation (2020), Logos Verlag, Berlin, ISBN: 9783832587192
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Beschreibung / Abstract
The growing importance of new actors in the global political landscape is envisaged as a phenomenon that has led to shifts in international power relations. This is reflected in development cooperation. Countries like China, Brazil, India and South Africa have enhanced their cooperation programs and present their development cooperation as South-South Development cooperation (SSDC) which takes place between countries of the 'Global South'. Both practitioners and scholars ascribe a notion of solidarity and horizontality to South-South cooperation that allegedly distinguishes it from the relationship patterns commonly associated with North-South relations. However, power constellations between the emerging powers and most of their cooperation partners are often asymmetrical. This book asks whether the claim that South-South cooperation is conducted in a horizontal manner holds in practice in spite of these asymmetries. It revises the concept of South-South cooperation and identifies the central characteristics that are claimed to distinguish the Southern modality from Northern cooperation. It then investigates the relationship between Brazil and Mozambique during the period 2003-2014 to shed some light on the question whether South-South cooperation is different from 'traditional' development cooperation regarding the relations between cooperation partners.
Beschreibung
Jurek Seifert is a development cooperation expert. He holds a PhD from the University of Duisburg-Essen and has worked on South-South cooperation, development effectiveness and private sector engagement. He has conducted research at the BRICS Policy Center in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and works in international development cooperation.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- BEGINN
- 1 Introduction
- 1.1 Emerging Powers and South-South Cooperation
- 1.2 Changes in Development Cooperation – †˜New Development Partners†™
- 1.3 Research Question and Research Design – Horizontality and Asymmetries in South-South Cooperation
- 1.4 State of Research
- 2 South-South Cooperation – History and Concept
- 2.1 South-South Cooperation – A Historical Overview
- 2.2 Approaching a Concept of Current South-South Cooperation
- 3 Horizontality and Asymmetries – Interstate Relations, Power and Control in the Interaction of SSDC Partners
- 3.1 Asymmetries and Power in Interstate Relations
- 3.2 Power and Control in South-South Development Cooperation – the Analytical Framework
- 4 Case Study: Brazil as a New Development Partner in Mozambique
- 4.1 Qualitative Single Case Study and Qualitative Data Collection – Method and Function
- 4.2 Asymmetries between Brazil and Mozambique
- 4.3 Brazil as a New Development Partner
- 4.4 Mozambique as a Recipient Country
- 4.5 South-South Development Cooperation between Brazil and Mozambique
- 4.6 Summary of the Analysis and Evaluation of SSDC between Brazil and Mozambique
- 5 Conclusions
- 6 Appendix
- 6.1 Overview Coding System Qualitative Analysis of Interviews
- 6.2 Interview Questionnaire
- 7 References