From the Local to the Global: Key Issues in Development Studies

In recent years, the international development sector has found itself confronting new and persistent challenges to poverty eradication and the promotion of human rights. From The Local to the Global highlights the extent to which the local and global are interconnected in today’s world economy and questions the legitimacy of the neo-liberal model of development that they argue has propelled us into the crisis.
            This completely revised third edition takes stock of the international development environment as it embarks on new policy frameworks to confront new challenges, ensuring that From the Local to the Global will continue to serve as an indispensable introduction to key development issues such as aid, debt, trade, migration, security, gender, and climate change.

Gerard McCann is a senior lecturer in international studies at St Mary’s University College, Queen’s University, Belfast and director of the Global Dimension in Education project.

Stephen McCloskey is the director of the Centre for Global Education, Belfast, and editor of the journal Policy and Practice: A Development Education Review. His publications include Development Education in Policy and Practice and The East Timor Question: The Struggle for Independence from Indonesia.