Emerging Powers, Development Cooperation and South-South Relations, 1st ed. 2021 International Political Economy Series

This book analyses the role of emerging powers as a development assistance providers and the nature of their development cooperation, their behaviour, motives and markedly their changing identities in international relations. With their growing economic and political clout, emerging powers are using economic instruments like foreign aid to ensure their position in the international system that is going through power shifts. By comparing three major emerging economies of the Global South- Brazil, India and China- this book would explore how emerging powers are changing the international aid architecture that is created and dominated by the traditional donors. 

Introduction: Emerging Powers as Development Assistance Providers in International Aid Architecture.- The Evolving Bilateral Aid Architecture.- COBRADI: The Rise and Fall of a Southern Aid Donor.- Chinese Development Assistance.- Indian Development Cooperation (IDC).- Comparing Brazil, China and India as Development Assistance Providers.- Conclusion.

Chithra Purushothaman is an independent foreign and security policy analyst based in Canada, and has a PhD in International Politics from Centre for International Politics, Organisation and Disarmament (CIPOD), Jawaharlal Nehru University. Dr Purushothaman has previously held research positions at Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA), Centre for Policy Research (CPR) ad MyGov India.  

Underlines the unique positioning of emerging powers to challenge how we understand foreign aid Explores the different instances when emerging powers act as aid providers as opposed to aid receivers Showcases how emerging powers are reshaping the international aid architecture while strengthening South-South Cooperation