South-South Cooperation Beyond the Myths: Rising Donors, New Aid Practices?

342 Pages·2017·3.79 MB·English

by  Isaline Bergamaschi

International Political Economy Series
South–South Cooperation
Beyond the Myths
Rising Donors, New Aid Practices?
Edited by Isaline Bergamaschi,
Phoebe Moore and Arlene B. Tickner
International Political Economy Series
Series Editor
Timothy M. Shaw
Visiting Professor at the University
of Massachusetts Boston, USA
Emeritus Professor at the University
of London UK
Aim of the Series
The global political economy is in flux as a series of cumulative crises
impacts its organization and governance. The IPE series has tracked its
development in both analysis and structure over the last three decades.
It has always had a concentration on the global South. Now the South
increasingly challenges the North as the centre of development, also
reflected in a growing number of submissions and publications on indebted
Eurozone economies in Southern Europe. An indispensable resource
for scholars and researchers, the series examines a variety of capitalisms
and connections by focusing on emerging economies, companies and
sectors, debates and policies. It informs diverse policy communities as
the established trans-Atlantic North declines and ‘the rest’, especially the
BRICS, rise.
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Isaline Bergamaschi • Phoebe Moore • Arlene B. Tickner
Editors
South-South
Cooperation Beyond
the Myths
Rising Donors, New Aid Practices?
Editors
Isaline Bergamaschi Phoebe Moore
Department of Political Science Department of Law
Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium Middlesex University
London, United Kingdom
Arlene B. Tickner
School of Political Science
Government and International
Relations
Universidad del Rosario, Colombia
International Political Economy Series
ISBN 978-1-137-53968-7 ISBN 978-1-137-53969-4 (eBook)
DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-53969-4
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C
ontents
1 Introduction: South–South Cooperation Beyond the
Myths—A Critical Analysis 1
Isaline Bergamaschi and Arlene B. Tickner
Part I Imagining and Shaping SSC:
Ideas, Identities and Actors 29
2 Malleable Identities and Blurring Frontiers
of Cooperation: Reflections from India’s “Distinct”
Engagement with Senegal and Mozambique 31
Pooja Jain and Danilo Marcondes
3 The Turkish Way of Doing Development Aid?:
An Analysis from the Somali Laboratory 59
Mehmet Ozkan
4 Good-Bye Che?: Scope, Identity, and Change in
Cuba’s South–South Cooperation 79
Daniele Benzi and Ximena Zapata
5 The South–South Partnership Puzzle: The Brazilian
Health Expert Community in Mozambique 107
Paulo Esteves and Manaíra Assunção
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vi CONTENTS
6 South Africa’s Development Diplomacy
and South–South Cooperation: Issues
of Institutionalization and Formalization? 137
Sanusha Naidu
Part II Is Another Cooperation Possible?
Cultivating Difference, Building Bridges 171
7 Venezuela and South–South Cooperation:
Solidarity or Realpolitik? 173
José Briceño-Ruiz
8 Emerging Donors on the Field: A Study Case of China
and South Korea in Lao PDR 197
Camille Laporte
9 From Identities to Politics: UAE Foreign Aid 225
Khalid Al-Mezaini
10 Going South to Reach the North?:
The Case of Colombia 245
Isaline Bergamaschi, Arlene B. Tickner, and Jimena Durán
11 Resisting South–South Cooperation? Mozambican
Civil Society and Brazilian Agricultural
Technical Cooperation 271
Jimena Durán and Sérgio Chichava
12 Conclusion: South–South Cooperation Experiences
Compared and the Way Forward 301
Isaline Bergamaschi and Jimena Durán
Index 325
L C
ist of ontributors
Mehmet Ozkan worked as Professor of International Relations at the
Turkish National Police Academy before becoming Director of the Turkish
Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TIKA) in Colombia and South
America. He has studied in South Africa, Sweden, and Spain; and held
positions in India, Egypt, and Bosnia–Herzegovina. Dr. Ozkan also
worked at the SETA Foundation for Political, Economic and Social
Research; and was Director of The International Centre for Terrorism and
Transnational Crime (UTSAM), both in Ankara, Turkey.
Manaíra Anaité Charlotte Assunção is a graduate student at the Institute
of International Relations of the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de
Janeiro. Since 2011, she has worked at the BRICS Policy Centre develop-
ing research in International Development. In 2014, she coauthored an
article published by Third Word Quarterly with a historical sociological
approach to North–South and South–South cooperation. Her research
interests are development cooperation governance, South–South and tri-
lateral cooperation, BRICS's and Brazil's cooperation practices, with an
emphasis on health development and policy mobilities/translations.
Daniele Benzi is a Professor in the Department of Global and Social
Studies at the Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar, Ecuador. He was for-
merly an associate professor of Sociology and International Relations at
ICSyH-BUAP (México), FLACSO-Ecuador, and Universidad Central del
Ecuador. His research areas focus on global political economy, regionalism
and South–South cooperation, Latin American Critical Thought, and
politics.
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viii LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
Isaline Bergamaschi is a Lecturer in Political Science at the Université
Libre de Bruxelles/REPI. Her interest is on studying globalization and
international relations through the global South and her research focuses
on the sociology of international development and aid. She has worked on
the politics of aid, the post-Washington Consensus, and the transforma-
tions of international intervention after the 2012 crisis in Mali. Her cur-
rent projects also deal with development policies and assistance in
Colombia. She has published articles in the Revue Tiers Monde, the Journal
of Modern African Studies, and Stability: International Journal of Security
and Development, as well as chapters in edited volumes at Oxford University
Press, Routledge, Brill, and Amsterdam University Press.
José Briceño-Ruiz is a professor-researcher in the School of Economic
and Social Sciences at the Universidad de los Andes, Mérida, Venezuela.
His research interests include regionalism, integration and development in
Latin America. He is the coeditor of The Resilience of Regionalism in
Latin America and the Caribbean (Palgrave, 2013), and Integración lati-
noamericana y caribeña (Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2012).
Sergio Chichiva is a senior researcher at the Institute of Social and
Economic Studies (IESE) in Mozambique. His research focusses on the
role of China and Brazil in Mozambique’s agricultural sector. His most
recent publications include China and Mozambique: From Comrades to
Capitalists (Jacana Media, coedited with Chris Alden, 2014).
Jimena Durán is an independent consultant on international develop-
ment cooperation, internationalization and policy analysis. She has con-
ducted research with IESE and CIRAD about the new development actors
in Mozambique, especially China and Brazil. She has worked as a Lecturer
on Development Cooperation at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana and in
the Agencia Presidencial de Cooperación de Colombia (APC-Colombia) in
the Ditectorate of Demand of International Cooperation.
Paulo Esteves holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from Rio de Janeiro
University’s Research Institute (IUPERJ). He is the Director of the
Institute of International Relations of the Pontifical Catholic University of
Rio de Janeiro and the General Supervisor of the BRICS Policy Centre.
He was a post-doctoral fellow at Copenhagen University in 2008. Recent
publications include articles and books on development cooperation, the
nexus between international security and development, and emerging
powers. Professor Esteves was the President of the Brazilian International
Relations Association (ABRI) from 2012–2015.
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Pooja Jain is a Visiting Fellow at EHESS in Paris. She is working on a
three-year research project on the new actors, dynamics, and territorialities
of development. She got her Ph.D. from Sciences Po Paris where she stud-
ied Partnerships for Development through a case study on India and
Senegal. Her research interests include development practice and policy,
public–private partnerships in development, international relations, and
South-South cooperation. She has written and published articles for the
French Agency of Development, Afrique Contemporaine, and Le Soleil, a
Senegalese daily.
Camille Laporte defended her Ph.D. in international relations at Sciences
po Paris in March 2015. Her thesis is entitled “The Politics of Evaluation:
The Case Study of Overseas Development Aid.” Now, she is Head of
Project in public policy evaluation at the French Prime Minister’s office
and teaches “evaluation of development aid projects” at Université Paris
Sud. Her research interests deal with emerging donors, aid effectiveness,
transfer studies, and sociology of international relations.
Ximena Zapata Mafla is a Ph.D. candidate at the German Institute of
Global and Area Studies (GIGA) and the University of Hamburg. She has
a Master’s in International Relations from the Latin American Faculty of
Social Sciences (FLACSO-Ecuador). Her research interests include emerg-
ing powers in Latin America, South-South cooperation, and regionalism
in Latin America.
Danilo Marcondes is a Ph.D. candidate at the Department of Politics
and International Studies at the University of Cambridge and the holder
of a CAPES–Cambridge Trust Scholarship. Prior to that, he was a lecturer
at the Institute of International Relations at the Pontifical Catholic
University of Rio Janeiro, Brazil (IRI/PUC-Rio) in 2010–2012. His
research interests include South–South cooperation, Brazilian foreign pol-
icy, and BRICS involvement in Africa. Danilo has published in Africa
Review, Journal of the Indian Ocean Region, and Journal of Peacebuilding
and Development.
Arlene B. Tickner is a professor of International Relations in the School
of Political Science, Government and International Relations at the
Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá, Colombia. Her main research interests
include Latin American security, Colombian foreign policy, and the sociol-
ogy of international relations knowledge in the non-core. She is the coedi-
tor of the Routledge book series, Worlding beyond the West.