Putting the "D" into the OECD:: The DAC in the Cold War years

Richard Woodward

doi:10.23661/s104.2021

Putting the "D" into the OECD: The DAC in the Cold War years

Richard Woodward

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This chapter charts the Development Assistance Committee’s (DAC) Cold
War history. During this period the DAC established much of the institutional
and intellectual scaffolding of international development cooperation.
Moreover, participation in the DAC also orchestrated a quiet revolution in
the identities of its members, forging them into an imagined community
of donors in which the supply of development assistance came to be seen
as a routine function of modern industrialised states. Although the Cold
War provided the overarching backdrop, the chapter also teases out some
of the other key features of the landscape inhabited by the DAC and how
they constrained and enabled its influence. These include the North-South
orientation of development cooperation, the hegemonic role of the United
States, disagreements among member states, and the DAC’s relationship
with other component parts of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Origins, Evolution and Future of Global Development Cooperation:
Subtitle of host publication	The Role of the Development Assistance Committee (DAC)
Editors	Gerardo Bracho, Richard Carey, William Hynes, Stephan Klingebiel, Alexandra Trzeciak-Duval
Publisher	Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik
Chapter	7
Pages	272-289
Number of pages	18
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-96021-163-1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.23661/s104.2021
Publication status	Published - 25 Sep 2021
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Cold War
Development Assistance Committee
Organisation for Economic Co-operation Development

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Woodward, R. (2021). Putting the "D" into the OECD: The DAC in the Cold War years. In G. Bracho, R. Carey, W. Hynes, S. Klingebiel, & A. Trzeciak-Duval (Eds.), Origins, Evolution and Future of Global Development Cooperation: The Role of the Development Assistance Committee (DAC) (pp. 272-289). Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik . https://doi.org/10.23661/s104.2021

Woodward, Richard. / Putting the "D" into the OECD: The DAC in the Cold War years. Origins, Evolution and Future of Global Development Cooperation: The Role of the Development Assistance Committee (DAC). editor / Gerardo Bracho ; Richard Carey ; William Hynes ; Stephan Klingebiel ; Alexandra Trzeciak-Duval. Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik , 2021. pp. 272-289

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