ABSTRACT
This chapter is particularly concerned with this rise of the East and asks what it means for development studies. It highlights the rise of the East, focusing in particular on the growth and transformation of China. The chapter distinguishes between four broad strands of development studies and shows how each strand is affected by the rise of the East. It discusses the need for a new vocabulary to make sense of the new world and—closely related to this—the need to break through a psychological barrier: analysing how the former ‘periphery’ is now driving change in the ‘centre’. Once the management of relationships is at the centre of new analytical and practical work, it becomes more likely that we will escape futile linear ideas of policymaking and find a framework for dealing with the proliferation of actors that have an influence on policy.
