Targeted Development should be widely read by IR scholars, graduate and undergraduate students, as well as members of the policy-making community. Bermeo's new framework takes us beyond the donor interest versus recipient need debate and will likely shape international development discourse for years to come.
Sarah Bermeo (PhD, Princeton) is a political economist whose work focuses on understanding relations between industrialized and developing countries. Bermeo is currently Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Political Science at the Sanford School at Duke University. Her published work on foreign aid and trade institutions has appeared in International Organization, Journal of Politics, and World
Development.