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Sachin Chaturvedi, Thomas Fues, and Elizabeth Sidiropoulos (eds.), Development Cooperation and Emerging Powers: New Partners or Old Patterns? (New York and London: Zed Books, 2012), Pages: 288, Price: $35.95, £19.99.
There is already very considerable literature on different facets of South- South cooperation but the volume under review delves into a newer trajectory and is intended to address the recent and growing phenomenon of development cooperation activities by the so-called emerging powers. The question they try to answer is whether such emerging powers are "new partners" or whether they will follow "old patterns" of the traditional advanced-country donors.
Contrary to what the title suggests, the focus in this volume is not on development cooperation in its different manifestations but essentially on the extension of "aid" in different forms. (In Chapter 2 Manmohan Agarwal does, however, address the broader dimensions.) The country-specific contributions of emerging powers cover Brazil, China, India, South Africa and, surprisingly, Mexico, an OECD member country. This selection is perhaps based on the G-5 concept that had for some time emerged in discussions with the G-8 but was soon thereafter subsumed by the G-20. By any definition, emerging powers is a group that is broader than the one on whom the individual studies are included in this volume.
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