This book explores, in a series of detailed case studies, how public policy is actually made in Qatar. While Qatar is a Gulf monarchy, its governance is complex. Other analysts have tried to come to grips with this complexity using qualified descriptions of the system such as 'late rentier,' 'pluralized autocracy,' 'tribal democracy,' or 'soft authoritarian.' The authors of the volume use the lens of a transformative state. Qatar is deliberately engaged in a rapid process of radical economic and societal transformation. That process has its contradictions and tensions, particularly with regards to achieving a balance between Islam, social traditions, and modernity. This book explores how it also has a specific policy dynamic of generating ideas and institutions, developing policy and program designs, implementation and coordination.

There are 1.6 billion Muslims in the world, represented on the world stage by 57 states, as well as a host of international organizations and associations. This book critically examines the engagement of these states in systems of global governance and with a variety of policy regimes, including climate change, energy, migration, humanitarian aid, international financial institutions, research and education. Chapters explore the dynamics of this engagement, the contributions to global order, the interests pursued and some of the contradictions and tensions within the Islamic world, and between that world and the 'West'. An in-depth perspective is provided about the traditional and new forms of multilateralism and the policy spaces formed which provide new opportunities for the Muslim and non-Muslim world alike.

There are 1.6 billion Muslims in the world, represented on the world stage by 57 states, as well as a host of international organizations and associations. This book critically examines the engagement of these states in systems of global governance and with a variety of policy regimes, including climate change, energy, migration, humanitarian aid, international financial institutions, research and education. Chapters explore the dynamics of this engagement, the contributions to global order, the interests pursued and some of the contradictions and tensions within the Islamic world, and between that world and the 'West'. An in-depth perspective is provided about the traditional and new forms of multilateralism and the policy spaces formed which provide new opportunities for the Muslim and non-Muslim world alike.

Les changements en matiere d'aide internationale et les defis souleves par les crises alimentaires, financieres et energetiques exigent un examen critique des conventions actuelles en matiere d'assistance et d'elaboration de politiques et de forums decisionnels en cooperation internationale. A la lumiere de la montee de pouvoirs emergents, une analyse de la maniere dont un ordre mondial en mutation transforme la nature de la cooperation pour le developpement s'impose. La promotion d'une croissance economique equitable et d'une reduction de la pauvrete exige une nouvelle comprehension de l'aide au developpement et une gouvernance, transparence, propriete et imputabilite optimales. L'avenir de la Cooperation Sud-Sud repose sur de nombreux facteurs, comme l'amelioration des moyens de communication et le partage des connaissances entre pays partenaires, l'adoption d'une approche analytique pour definir les biens publics regionaux et mondiaux, l'identification et l'evaluation des bonnes et des mauvaises pratiques et la fusion des priorites economiques et sociales. Au moyen d'etudes de cas, les auteurs proposent des approches novatrices pour promouvoir la Cooperation Sud-Sud et etablir des politiques de developpement international efficaces. Ce livre est publie en anglais. - This book presents novel approaches to further South South Cooperation (SSC) on a global scale. The evolving aid architecture and mounting development challenges demand an urgent and critical review of existing aid modalities, policy-making and forums for international cooperation. With the rise of emerging powers, we face an important question: ls the changing global order transforming the nature of development cooperation? Promoting equitable broad-based growth in order to alleviate poverty, calls for a new understanding of the principles of development assistance, good governance, transparency, ownership, and accountability. This book is published in English.