The Amerikas Colloquium

Dr. Andrés Jiménez Ángel (Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá):

Negotiating Development? The “Law and Development” Projects for Latin America, 1965-1969

The historiography of development of the last two decades has eloquently showed that international development in the Cold War years was far from being a formidable geopolitical master plan imposed without resistance upon poor countries in the contest for global domination. On the contrary, the complexities of international development cooperation programs, in terms of the actors involved both on the giving and the receiving-side, as well as of their conception, formulation, and implementation, have been stressed by recent transnational and global historical research on specific programs. This has led several historians and scholars from other disciplines to focus on the multiple negotiations that took place in different stages of the respective initiatives and that determined their evolution beyond all efforts to predict or control the outcome of those projects. Within this framework and focusing on the early stages of the so called “law and development” programs for Latin America, promoted by the Ford Foundation in collaboration with prestigious American law schools and USAID and executed in close cooperation with Latin American universities in my presentation, I would like to reflect on the nature, the structure, the dynamics, and the scope of negotiation in international development projects.

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When?           Thursday, July 14, 18:15

Where?         Oettingenstr. 67, Room L155 and via Zoom-Meeting.
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