ABSTRACT
This chapter presents to bring out overlooked aspect of Susan Strange's work. It proceeds by drawing attention to the pillars around which Strange's approach evolves. The chapter begins by under lining the crucial and growing importance of international structures and, in particular, international financial structures for the analysis of developing countries. The chapter explores that Strange in arguing that private actors, as opposed to states, governments and policy makers, are central for understanding developing countries. It argues that Strange's approach opens an interesting and rich kaleidoscope of questions. However, the chapter also points to areas where the analysis and the answers would have been more convincing and richer if Strange had developed more explicit links with existing literature on developing countries. It underlines that Strange's argument that over all trends matter for developing countries leaves us with important and interesting questions about precisely how they matter, why they matter so differently and how their influence could be made more equitable.
