The book being presented in this talk underscores the constitutive relationship between foreign aid as a material resource and the diplomatic discourses and practices that constitute complex bilateral relations between donor and recipient states.

Written by two leading scholars of contemporary United States and Chinese foreign policies in the Global South, the book offers a theoretically grounded and empirically rich account of the two powers' grand strategies in the global development sector. Drawing on a multidisciplinary and comparative analysis, this book draws on a wide range of primary sources, including fieldwork interviews, government documents, local and international newspapers, speeches by high-ranking government officials and diplomats, as well as secondary scholarly and policy data.

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