Myths of the Near Future: Paris, Busan, and Tales of Aid Effectiveness

Abstract

Müller and Sondermann analyse myths in development cooperation and focus on the aid effectiveness discourse. Empirically, they begin with the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness (2005) and critically examine the developmental terminologies that have been brought up in the declaration and unfolded during the follow-up process. With a focus on the High-Level Forum in Busan (November 2011), where emerging (or ‘new’) donors played an important role, they ask to what extent the myths have been retold and diversified. For their analysis, the authors refer to Barthes’ structuralist understandings of myths bearing silencing, harmonising, depoliticising, or emancipatory functions as well as to the reception of political mythology in poststructuralist IR theory. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

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