¹This article is adapted from a much longer version 'Social Reconstruction and the Radicalisation of Development: Aid as a relation of global governance' published in Development and Change 2002, 33(5): 1049–71.

Abstract

Mark Duffield analyzes how the conventional understanding of the new wars establishes both a justification and legitimacy for external intervention. He argues that the encounter of global liberal governance with resistance is shaping the post-Cold War reuniting of aid and politics.