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Report Part Title: Introduction

Report Title: Crafting development power

Report Subtitle: Evolving European approaches in an age of polycrisis
Report Author(s): Yunnan Chen, Raphaëlle Faure and Nilima Gulrajani
Published by: ODI (2023)
Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/resrep51669.8

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4 ODI Report
1 Introduction
Covid-19. Cost of living. Climate. Conflict. Our
world today is like a cake layered with crises that
are anything but vanilla. Radical uncertainty
envelops all countries irrespective of wealth,
with stark effects on human development, social
stability and political polarisation (UNDP, 2022a).
There is both frosty suspicion of states, and deep
mistrust among states. Global politics, already
struggling with messy multipolarity, is now
gridlocked by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine that
exacerbates the rift between China, the United
States and their allies (Foa et al., 2022).
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supply chains will be fought on many foreign
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power intersect today, assess the ways donors
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