Targeted Development
Industrialized Country Strategy in a Globalizing World
Sarah Bermeo
Reviews and Awards
"Targeted Development should be widely read by IR scholars, graduate and undergraduate students, as well as members of the policy-making community. Bermeo's new framework takes us beyond the donor interest versus recipient need debate and will likely shape international development discourse for years to come." -- Simone Dietrich, University of Geneva, The Review of International Organizations
"Sarah Bermeo develops a rigorous, and convincing, theory, and subjects it to a series of quantitative and qualitative evaluations. The result is an excellent, pioneering, study of the political economy of development assistance, especially in the post-Cold War world." --Jeffry Frieden, Department of Government, Harvard University
"This is a sweeping, original and important study of the international politics of development that reframes existing debates and fits the pieces together with an audible snap. We have been thinking about development assistance incorrectly, because altruistic and self-interested motives are not mutually exclusive." --Randall W. Stone, Professor of Political Science, University of Rochester
"Bermeo presents the view that shifting priorities and increasing globalization have aligned rich country interests with efforts to promote economic development in targeted poor countries. Targeted Development provides a unique lens through which to interpret post-2001 shifts in foreign aid, trade policy, and climate funding. The book makes a compelling case for a new approach to analyze international economic policy." --Christopher Kilby, Professor of Economics, Villanova School of Business
