ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses personal experiences regarding challenges and opportunities related to the research of foreign aid and cooperation for international development. At the dawn of the 21st century, a number of actors from the South emerged on the international development scene, triggering a wave of studies regarding new practices, ideas, values, challenges and opportunities that follow on from such changing world. Funding research projects based on traditional aid has some facilities, such as a well-known core literature and the existence of established research networks. Wealth and prestige are part of a complex dynamic behind knowledge production that feeds itself and leads researchers into a given direction. Research opportunities in the field of cooperation for international development arise from the challenges created by the politics of knowledge production. Research findings are also treated differently according to their places of origin.
