Class 1 Introduction
Class 2 The Making of Development (1)
Lecture Hours: 3 Preparation Hours: 4.5
Harry S Truman, “The Point Four Program”
Arturo Escobar, “The Invention of Development”
Lucian W Pye, “The Concept of Political development”
Class 3 The Making of Development (2)
Lecture Hours: 3 Preparation Hours: 4.5
Amartya Sen, “The Concept of development”
World Bank, “What is Development”
Class 4 Economic Development
Lecture Hours: 3 Preparation Hours: 4.5
Nathan Nunn, “The Importance of History for Economic Development”
H W Arndt, “Economic Development: A Semantic History”
Class 5 Why Does Development Need Assistance?
Lecture Hours: 3 Preparation Hours: 4.5
Alberto Alesina, “Who Gives Foreign Aid and Why?”
USAID, “History of Foreign Assistance”
William Easterly, “Was Development Assistance A Mistake?”
Class 6 Development Assistance and Politics (1)
Lecture Hours: 3 Preparation Hours: 4.5
Hans Morgenthau, “A Political Theory of Foreign Aid”
Michael Faye and Paul Niehaus, “Political Aid Cycles”
Alain Noel and Jean-Philippe Therein, “From Domestic to International Justice: The Welfare State and Foreign Aid”
Jean-Philippe Therein and Alain Noel, “Political Parties and Foreign Aid”
Class 7: Dependency？ Democracy？
Lecture Hours: 3 Preparation Hours: 4.5
Edward Muller, “Dependent Economic Development, Aid Dependence on the US, and Democratic Breakdown in the Third World”
Stephen Brown, “Foreign Aid and Democracy Promotion: Lessons from Africa”
Class 8: In-class Quiz
Class 9: Business Interests
Lecture Hours: 3 Preparation Hours: 4.5
WTO, “ Aid for Trade: Is it Working?”
Thomas V DiBacco, “American Business and Foreign Aid: The Eisenhower Years”
Class 10: Humanitarianism
Lecture Hours: 3 Preparation Hours: 4.5
Regine Andersen, “How Multilateral Development Assistance Triggered the Conflict in Rwanda”
Jonathan Goodhand, “Aiding Violence or Building Peace?”
Joanna Macrae, “Understanding Integration from Rwanda to Iraq”
Carola Weil, “The Protection Neutrality Dilemma in Humanitarian Emergencies”
Michael Barnett, “Humanitarianism Transformed”
Susan Cotts Watkins and Jane Menken, “Famines in Historical Perspective”
Class 11: Art and Development
Lecture Hours: 3 Preparation Hours: 4.5
Kate Manzo, “An Extension of Colonialism?”
Amy Oliver ,“The Pornography of Poverty and the Brothel without Walls”
Roland Bleiker, “Representing HIV/AIDS in Africa: Pluralist Photography and Local
Empowerment”
Class 12: China and Assistance
Lecture Hours: 3 Preparation Hours: 4.5
Kristian Kjøllesdal “Foreign Aid Strategies: China Taking Over?”
Philip HP Liu, “Petty Annoyance?”
Ngaire Woods, “ Whose Aid? Whose Influence? China, Emerging Donors, and the
Silent Revolution in Development Assistance”
Sven Grimm “Transparency of Chinese Aid”
Class 13: Chinese Assistance in Africa
Lecture Hours: 3 Preparation Hours: 4.5
Deborah Brautigam, “Chinese Development Aid in Africa”
Class 14: Taiwan and Assistance
Lecture Hours: 3 Preparation Hours: 4.5
William Easterly, “Can the West Save Africa?”
Philip HP Liu, “Planting Rice on the Roof of the UN Building”
Daniel P. Erikson and Janice Chen, “ China, Taiwan and the Battle for Latin America”
Class 15: Student Presentations
Class 15: Final paper/In-class Quiz
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