By Andrew Sherriff and Andy Sumner / Part of the European Development Policy Outlook Series
So, the UK has a new government. What does it mean for post-Brexit UK-EU relations?
In a new brief for ECDPM, we consider the UK election outcome and explore the potential challenges and opportunities for UK-EU collaboration on development.
Continue reading “After the Landslide: What are the Prospects for UK-EU Collaboration in Global Development Cooperation?”
By Basile Boulay (part 3 of 3)
Facilitating publication in English for non-native speakers is important: as we saw in the previous post (1st post here), they face numerous entry barriers that prevent them for having the same chances as their native peers on the ‘research market’. It’s not the full story, however, and far from it. In this third article, I would like to stress how far this linguistic divide takes us on the terrain of structural inequalities, power dynamics, and, yes, intellectual reductionism. Although we cannot ignore the practical gains that English as a lingua franca brings for research, we can’t turn a blind eye to the fact that this hegemony creates serious problems for everyone, native speakers included.
Continue reading “Power Dynamics are Everywhere, and Language is no Exception”
By Stefan Cibian / Part of the European Development Policy Outlook Series
In the early 1970s, Romania offered partner countries over 300 million USD per year in technical assistance. In 2022, Romania disbursed only 80,87 million USD in bilateral aid, while the overall budget of RoAID, the Romanian Development Agency, managing a part of Romania’s bilateral aid, was less than 13 million EUR. Such a difference reflects a limited political prioritization of development assistance and partner countries in Romania’s foreign and development policies after 1989.
Continue reading “Romania’s Development Policy: Policy Challenges and Unexplored Potential”
By Basile Boulay (part 2 of 3)
In this second of three blogposts on the linguistic predominance of English in research (first one here, third here), I explore the variety of ‘everyday’ barriers faced by researchers whose first language is not English when producing, presenting and/or publishing their findings in this language. The focus here is on the immediate issues they face in the current context, and potential solutions. The deeper considerations of political economy and power will be the subject of the third, final blogpost.
Continue reading “The Daily Multi-Layered Barriers Faced by Non-Native English Researchers”
By Andy Sumner / Part of the European Development Policy Outlook Series
The UK election is at hand. The campaign has been dominated by questions of what might change in the UK (or not). But there’s been relatively little attention on overseas and specifically, foreign and development policy. What are the main political parties pledging?
Continue reading “Money, Ministries, Motives, and Meh: How Might the Election Change UK Development Policy?”
