Includes bibliographical references and index. Power, M. (2019). Geopolitics and development. New York, NY: Routledge.

Introduction: Geopolitics and the Assemble of Development -- Introduction: the anti-politics of development -- Theorising (post-) development -- Critical geopolitics and development -- Situating development historically -- An Afrocentric focus -- The structure of the book -- Post-Colonialism, Geopolitics and the Periphery -- Introduction: the changing metageographies of development -- Tropicality and Orientalism -- The rise of the Area Studies complex -- IR, Political Geography and Development -- Placing Africa in IR and Political Geography -- Conclusions: towards a subaltern geopolitics of development -- Modernising the "Third World" -- Introduction: a global history of modernisation -- The Third World as ideological project -- The Soviet Union and the "romance" of economic development -- The US and the Third World -- Arresting the communist "contagion": theorising modernisation in the US -- JFK, the "decade of development" and the rise of "developmentese" -- Conclusions: the ghosts of Cold War modernisation -- Cold War Geopolitics and Foreign Aid -- Introduction: Cold War foreign aid and the battle for the Third World -- From the periphery to the periphery: the USSR and foreign aid -- China in Africa: advancing a "subaltern" globalism? -- US foreign aid and the countering of insurgency -- Conclusions: an emerging governmental rationality of development -- The State and Development -- Introduction: the state is dead, long live the state -- Theorising the state -- States, infrastructures and resource geographies -- The state and insurgency -- Contesting state power: social movements -- Conclusions: spaces of subaltern struggle -- The Political Geographies of Contemporary US Foreign Assistance -- Introduction: reconstruction as war -- The securitisation of development -- Reinventing USAID: the security-economy nexus -- The revival of development-based counter-insurgency -- The US and counter-insurgency in Africa: draining the "swamp of terror" -- Conclusions: (re)militarising development -- The Rise of the South -- Introduction: the revival of South-South development cooperation -- Brazil as a "conduit of pan-Southern action" -- China as emerging global development hegemon -- South Korea: exporting a story of developmental "success" -- India-Africa development cooperation -- Conclusions: the "emancipatory" potential of (re-)emerging donors? -- Conclusions: Development and (Counter-)Insurgency -- The excess of development -- Post-development, state power and insurgency -- Re-centring Africa and development in Political Geography and IR -- Modernisation and Cold War geopolitics -- Development and Pacification -- SSDC and the changing dynamics of development diplomacy -- The shifting spatialities of contemporary development

The focus of the book is both historical and contemporary, exploring the geopolitical enframing and imagination of development in key historical junctures such as the Cold War, the end of empire and the War on Terror but also examining what the rise of new state donors such as China, Brazil and India means for established modes of development co-operation and the development paradigm as a whole.