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The state and international development management: Shifting tides, changing boundaries, and future directions
Brinkerhoff, D. (2008). The state and international development management: Shifting tides, changing boundaries, and future directions. Public Administration Review, 68(6), 985-1001. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-6210.2008.00948.x
Today's global concerns with poverty, instability, and terrorism link international development and security in unprecedented ways and assemble new actors in the foreign policy arena. The lessons of past experience need to better inform current policy and practice. The evolution of thinking on the role of the state, the citizen, and international development management provides clues regarding what works and what research questions remain to be answered. Institutional barriers to cooperation and shared learning need to be overcome, along with tendencies to revert to earlier, simplistic management approaches to solving international development problems.
