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The Post-2015 Development Agenda: Three Facts and Three Challenges
Sarah Hearn | September 03, 2025In July 2014, the UN Open Working Group on Sustainable Development proposed a universal set of post-2015 goals and targets to succeed the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The draft consists of 17 ambitious goals for social, economic and enviro…
read moreMandela’s farewell
Jean-Paul Marthoz | 06 December 2025Mandela was an ethical realist, who rejected confrontation both at home and internationally.
read moreSouth Africa’s global ambitions
Jean-Paul Marthoz | February 21, 2025In 1994, the new South Africa emerged as a promising foreign policy actor. It launched ambitious plans to develop the continent and expressed a strong commitment to the global South. The country has become a legitimate voice of Africa on the world…
read moreGlobal development blog
June 15, 2025The Broker will publish interesting publications and current affairs in de field of global development.
read moreEU must show commitment to the Arab people
Petra Stienen | 25 March 2025Each year, the Spring Summit of the EU is followed by the Brussels Forum of the German Marshall Fund. This is the third year that I have been invited to this meeting of politicians, public opinion leaders, diplomats and young people from the US an…
read moreFragile states: the easy answers won’t bring us further
Frauke de Weijer | 22 February 2025Tomorrow morning I will board a flight to Santa Fe in New Mexico. I am expecting to land in a Wild West-style landscape, which seems to me particularly well suited for a conference on US foreign policy on Afghanistan. ‘Foreign policy as a complex…
read moreThe French Connections
Danielle Barret, Henri Rouille d’Orfeuil | February 03, 2025Faced with new geopolitical and environmental challenges, the French government as well as NGOs are changing their rhetoric. A focus on European and international efforts to promote a sustainable world is replacing old slogans of development.
read moreBuilding peace, states and hybrids
Mariano Aguirre, Chris van der Borgh | February 02, 2025International missions that aim to support stability, peace- and state-building in crisis areas are often unsure of how to move forward. The idea is gaining ground that a ‘revisioning’ of such interventions is needed. Hybrid is the new buzzword.&n…;
read moreAid targets still to be met
Romesh Vaitilingam | August 04, 2025The UK’s New Labour government has been a vocal participant in international development debates. The Conservative party, should it come to power in 2010, promises to keep up the efforts.
read moreLow scores for the chair of G8 Africa
Iacopo Viciani | May 30, 2025As the holder of the G8 presidency, Italy will host the next G8 summit in July. The members will pledge support to developing countries to ease the impacts of the economic crisis. But with its poor aid record, does Italy have the legitimacy to lea…
read moreDenmark’s global role
Knud Vilby | April 02, 2025Denmark was among the most generous aid donors from 1960 to 2000. A new government in 2001 reduced Danish assistance considerably and put more emphasis on security issues. Denmark now has a renewed focus on aid, particularly in Africa.
read moreBoosting Swiss aid
Viera Malach | February 02, 2025Switzerland is among the world’s richest countries, yet its government has been tight-fisted with development aid contributions. In 2008, parliament increased the aid budget, but many NGOs say it’s not enough.
read moreEditorial: Sustainable realism
Frans Bieckmann | July 28, 2025He brought us back to earth with a bump. At the General Conference of the European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI) in June, reported on in this issue of The Broker, Oswaldo de Rivero boldly stated that ‘economic…
read moreKnowledge on the move
Mariëtte Heres, Frans Bieckmann | April 07, 2025The traditional focus of development research on local and national processes has been rendered obsolete by the new global power relations. Researchers must be more concerned about relevance than academic excellence. And open knowledge networks ar…
read moreTrading for peace
Dawood Mamoon, Syed Mansoob Murshed | November 28, 2025Are shared democratic values the most important factors in promoting peace between countries, or common economic interests? New econometric research shows that, in the case of India and Pakistan, trade with other countries increases the chance of…
read moreConserving monuments
Ko Colijn | July 24, 2025As instruments of peacemaking, global institutions like the United Nations are not really popular. In the stiff ‘new-speak’ of the modern policy sciences we should evaluate these institutions in terms of their accountability, policy targets accomp…
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