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Introduction -- Development Discourses in History -- Reinventing Europe. A Cosmopolitan Vision -- The Precarious Sustainability of Democracy in Latin America -- Towards a New School of Thought on Development on South Asia -- Environmental Load Displacement -- Child Malnutrition. From the Global Protein Crisis to a Violation of Human Rights -- Culture and Human Rights -- Words as Moral Badges. A Flow of Buzzwords in Development Aid -- Civil Society, Faith-Based Organizations and Development in the Arab World -- The Cultural Dimension of Gender in Education -- Islam and Cosmopolitanism -- Place and Voice in the Global Age. A View from Latin America -- Conclusion -- Index

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