Rita Abrahamsen is Professor of African Studies, University of Oxford. Michael C. Williams is Professor at the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Ottawa.

• List of FiguresAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Outline of a Theory of Development2. Genesis3. Transformation4. World Order, Hegemonic Ordering, and DisorderingNotesBibliographyIndex

"By analyzing development as a field of practices in the Bourdieusian sense, and not as a legitimation discourse or a result of state policies, Developing Hegemony is profoundly innovative. The sociohistorical perspective of development presented here is central to understanding why foreign aid is being rebuked in the present. An absolutely necessary book." —Didier Bigo, University of Liverpool"As China expands its influence in the Global South even as the US withdraws from the foreign aid system by shuttering USAID, Developing Hegemony's perfectly timed and vital dissection of the IR-Development nexus explains how this hinge moment is reshaping the liberal world order's ideational and symbolic dimensions." —Nils Gilman, Berggruen Institute"Abrahamsen and Williams hand us a key to understanding world politics. Working with Bourdieu's thinking tools,this politically astute book opens a precise discussion about how the 'disinterested interest' at stake in development creates power politics, global militarism, and hegemonic (dis)ordering." —Anna Leander, Geneva Graduate Institute

Rita Abrahamsen is Professor of African Studies, University of Oxford. Michael C. Williams is Professor at the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Ottawa.

• List of FiguresAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Outline of a Theory of Development2. Genesis3. Transformation4. World Order, Hegemonic Ordering, and DisorderingNotesBibliographyIndex

"By analyzing development as a field of practices in the Bourdieusian sense, and not as a legitimation discourse or a result of state policies, Developing Hegemony is profoundly innovative. The sociohistorical perspective of development presented here is central to understanding why foreign aid is being rebuked in the present. An absolutely necessary book." —Didier Bigo, University of Liverpool"As China expands its influence in the Global South even as the US withdraws from the foreign aid system by shuttering USAID, Developing Hegemony's perfectly timed and vital dissection of the IR-Development nexus explains how this hinge moment is reshaping the liberal world order's ideational and symbolic dimensions." —Nils Gilman, Berggruen Institute"Abrahamsen and Williams hand us a key to understanding world politics. Working with Bourdieu's thinking tools,this politically astute book opens a precise discussion about how the 'disinterested interest' at stake in development creates power politics, global militarism, and hegemonic (dis)ordering." —Anna Leander, Geneva Graduate Institute

Rita Abrahamsen is Professor of African Studies, University of Oxford. Michael C. Williams is Professor at the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Ottawa.

• List of FiguresAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Outline of a Theory of Development2. Genesis3. Transformation4. World Order, Hegemonic Ordering, and DisorderingNotesBibliographyIndex

"By analyzing development as a field of practices in the Bourdieusian sense, and not as a legitimation discourse or a result of state policies, Developing Hegemony is profoundly innovative. The sociohistorical perspective of development presented here is central to understanding why foreign aid is being rebuked in the present. An absolutely necessary book." —Didier Bigo, University of Liverpool"As China expands its influence in the Global South even as the US withdraws from the foreign aid system by shuttering USAID, Developing Hegemony's perfectly timed and vital dissection of the IR-Development nexus explains how this hinge moment is reshaping the liberal world order's ideational and symbolic dimensions." —Nils Gilman, Berggruen Institute"Abrahamsen and Williams hand us a key to understanding world politics. Working with Bourdieu's thinking tools,this politically astute book opens a precise discussion about how the 'disinterested interest' at stake in development creates power politics, global militarism, and hegemonic (dis)ordering." —Anna Leander, Geneva Graduate Institute