Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- The development-cooperation experiment -- A changed context for development finance and international cooperation -- Chapter 2 The Evolution of Development Cooperation -- The development experience: concepts and insights -- Four decades of institutional arrangements for development cooperation -- Concluding remarks -- Chapter 3 A New Context -- International security in a postbipolar world -- Growing economic and financial interdependence -- Persistent inequalities and economic uncertainty -- Social conditions -- Environmental sustainability -- Culture, religion, and ethical concerns -- Governance and democracy -- The knowledge explosion and the knowledge divide -- Concluding remarks -- Chapter 4 The Emerging Fractured Global Order -- Interpretations of globalization: an overview -- A fractured global order -- The knowledge fracture and the two civilizations -- Concluding remarks -- Chapter 5 Transformation in the 1990s -- Resource flows in the 1980s and 1990s: the ODA squeeze -- Questioning development cooperation and the role of multilateral institutions -- New demands for development cooperation -- Rising to the challenge? Responses and initiatives -- Concluding remarks -- Chapter 6 The Shape of Things to Come -- Summary overview -- Enduring and changing motivations for development finance and international cooperation -- The shape of things to come: development-cooperation themes, organizations, and resources -- Concluding remarks: an arduous transition -- Appendix 1 Development Cooperation and Conflict Prevention -- Appendix 2 Acronyms and Abbreviations -- References.