Abstract
The anger that comes from watching and feeling failure in development, in addition to the anger that comes from the West's reluctance or refusal to recognize thought and religious conviction needs to challenge us towards major institutional reform for a wider and drastic democratization of the world's architecture. Stephen Chan warns there are tremendous new hopes and fears and the old cannot understand them or miscegenate easily with them. In fact, the old keeps trying to express the new in its old terms. He argues that no new international institutions can be built without first interrogating certain contradictions and then accomplishing a work of preconditions.
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This essay is an effort at provocation but also an application to development studies of the points I have been making in International Relations, most recently in The End of Certainty (Chan, 2009).
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Chan, S. Alternative Institutional Arrangements for Human Development. Development 53, 22–26 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1057/dev.2009.82
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