Main group 1

• Bigsten, Arne, Utvecklingens ekonomi och politik., Lund, Studentlitteratur, 2003 (Lund, tur)
• Easterly, William Russell, The white man's burden: why the west's efforts to aid the rest have done so much ill and so little good, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2006Compulsory*
• Sen, Amartya, Development as freedom., Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2001Compulsory*
• The Paris Declaration on Aid EffectivenessCompulsory*
• Speth, James Gustave; Haas, Peter M., Global environmental governance, Washington, Island Press, cop. 2006Compulsory*
• World development report 2010: development and climate change, Washington, D.C., World Bank, 2009Compulsory*

Main group 2

• World development report.: 2000/2001 Attacking poverty, New York, Oxford Univ. Press, 2000Compulsory*
• Todaro, Michael P.; Smith, Stephen C., Economic development, 10. ed., Harlow, Addison-Wesley, 2009Compulsory*
• World development report.: 2004 Making services work for poor people, Washington, D.C., World Bank, 2003Compulsory*
• World development report.: 2008 Agriculture for development, Washington, D.C., World Bank, cop. 2007Compulsory*
• World development report: 2003 Sustainable development in a dynamic world: transforming institutions, growth, and quality of life, Washington, DC, World Bank and Oxford University Press, cop. 2003 [2002]Compulsory*
• Acemoglu, D.; Johnson, S.; Robinson, J., The colonial origins of comparative development: an empirical investigation, American Economic Review 91(5):1369-1401, 2001Compulsory*
• Dollar, D.; Kraay, A., Growth is good for the Poor, Journal of Economic Growth 7(3): 195-225, 2002Compulsory*
• Edward, P., Examining Inequality: Who really benefits from Global Growth, World Development, 2006Compulsory*
• Nissanke, Machiko.; Thorbecke, Erik., Channels and policy debate in the globalization-inequality-poverty nexus, Helsinki, United Nations University, World Institute for Development Economics Research, 2005Compulsory*
• Banerjee, A; Duflo, E, Addressing Absence, Journal of Economic Perspectives 20, pp. 117-132, 2006Compulsory*
• Birsall, Nancy; Rodrik, Dani; Dubramaniam, Arvind, How to help Poor Countries, Foreign Affairs, July/August 2005, 2005Compulsory*

Main group 3

• Kabbani, Rana, Imperial Fictions: Europe Myth's of the Orient, Indiana University Press: Bloomington (pp. 1-13 & 67-85), 2009Compulsory*
• Sayyid, S, Mirror Mirror: Western Democrats, Oriental Despots?,, Ethnicities, 5; (30-50), 2005
• Prakash, Gyan, Orientalism now, History & Theory vol. 34, no. 3 (199-212), 1995
• Liddle, Joanna; Rai, Shirin, Feminism, Imperialism and Orientalism: The Challenge of the 'Indian Woman, Women's History Review, Vol.7. No.4, (pp.495-519), 1998
• Mohanty, Chandra, Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses, Feminist Review, 30, (pp.61-88), 1988
• Chaudhuri, Nupur, Memshahibs and their servants in nineteenth century India, Women's History Review, 3:4, (pp. 549-562), 1994
• McClintock, Anne, Imperial leather: race, gender and sexuality in the colonial contest, London, Routledge, 1995
• Thapar-Björkert, Suruchi; Ryan, Louise, Mother India and Mother Ireland: Comparative Gendered Dialogues of Colonialism and nationalism in the early 20 century, Women's Studies International Forum, Volume 25, Issue 3, May-June, (pp. 301-313), 2002
• Gender and imperialism, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 1998
• Chadya, Joyce M, Mother Politics: Anti-colonial Nationalism and the Woman Question in Africa, Journal of Women's History - Volume 15, Number 3,(pp. 153-157), 2003
• Johnson, Cheryl, Grass Roots Organizing: Women in Anticolonial Activity in Southwestern Nigeria, African Studies Review, Vol. 25, No. 2/3, pp. 137-157, 1982
• Djamila Amrane-Minne, Daniele; Abu-Haidar, Farida, Women and Politics in Algeria from the War of Independence to Our Day, Research in African Literatures, Vol.30, No.3 (62-77), 1999
• Parpart, Jane L, Who is the 'Other'?: A Postmodern Feminist Critique of Women and Development Theory and Practice, Development and Change, Volume 24 Issue 3, Pages 439 - 464, 1993
• Razavi, Shahra, Fitting Gender into Development Institutions, World Development, Vol.25, No.7, (1111-1125), 1997
• Marchand, Marianne H.; Parpart, Jane L., Feminism, postmodernism, development, London, Routledge, 1995Compulsory*
• Kabeer, Naila, Reversed realities: gender hierarchies in development thought, London, Verso, 1994Compulsory*
• Chua, Peter; Bhavnani, Kum-Kum; Foran, John, Women, culture, development: a new paradigm for development studies?, Part of: Ethnic and racial studies., vol. 23, no. 5, 2000, p. 820–841
• Nederveen Pieterse, Jan, After Post Development, Third World Quarterly, Vol.21, No.2 (175-191), 2000
• Feminist visions of development: gender, analysis and policy, New York, Routledge, 1998
• Lugalla, J, The Impact of Structural Adjustment Policies on Women and Children's Health in Tanzania, Review of African Political Economy, No.63, Vol.22, March, 1995
• Kanji, Nazneen; Jazdowska, Structural Adjustment and women in Zimbabwe, Review of African Political Economy, No.56, (pp.11-26), 1993
• Patel, Vibhuti, Women and Structural Adjustment in India, Social Scientist, Vol.22, No.3/4, (pp.16-34)., 1994
• Kaimowitz, David; Thiele, Graham, The Effects of Structural Adjustment on Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Lowland Bolivia, World Development Vol. 27, No. 3. (505-520), 1999
• George, Susan, Down the Great Financial Drain: How Debt and the Washingtom Consensus destroy development and create poverty, Development, 50 (2), (4-11), 2007
• Amalric, Franck; Banuri, Tariq, Population: Malady or Symptom?, Third World Quarterly, Vol. 15, No. 4 (pp.691-706), 1994
• Sudha, S; Irudaya Rajan, S, Female Demographic Disadvantage in India 1981-1991: Sex Selective Abortions and Female Infanticide, Development and Change Vol. 30 (pp.585-618), 1999
• Sen, Armartya, More than 100 million women are missing, Part of: The New York review of books.
• Bhat, R L; Sharma, Namita, ) Mising Girls: Evidence from some North Indian States, Indian Journal of Gender Studies, 13/3 (pp.351-373), 2006
• Kaldor, Mary, New and old wars: organized violence in a global era., Cambridge, Polity Press in association with Blackwell, 1999
• Kalyvas, Stathis N., "New"and"old"civil wars - a valid distinction?, Part of: World politics: a quarterly journal of international relations, p. 99–108
• Dowden, Richard, The Rwandan Genocide: How the Press Missed the Story, African Affairs , 103, (pp.283-290), 2004
• Keen, David, A Rational Kind of Madness, Oxford Development Studies, Vol. 25, No. 1, (pp.67-75), 1997
• Thapar-Bjorkert, Suruchi; Morgan, Karen; Yuval-Davis, Nira, Framing gendered identities: local conflicts/global violence, Part of: Women's studies international forum: a multidisciplinary journal ..., vol. 29, no. 5, 2006, p. 433–538Compulsory*
• Alison, Miranda, Women as Agents of Political Violence: Gendering Security, Security Dialogue vol. 35, no. 4, December 2004 (pp.447-464), 2004
• Gender and catastrophe, London, Zed, 1997

Main group 4

• Collier, Paul., Wars, guns, and votes: democracy in dangerous places, 1. ed., New York, Harper, 2009Compulsory*
• Collier, Paul, The bottom billion: why the poorest countries are failing and what can be done about it, New York, Oxford University Press, cop. 2007Compulsory*
• Engendering development: through gender equality in rights, resources, and voice, Washington, D.C., World Bank, 2001Compulsory*
• World Bank & Human Security Centre, eds., Miniatlas of Human Security, World Bank Publications, 2008Compulsory*
• Anderson, Mary B., Do no harm: how aid can support peace - or war, Boulder, Colo., Lynne Rienner, 1999Compulsory*
• Söderberg Kovacs, Mimmi; Ohlson, Thomas, Democratisation and armed conflicts, Stockholm, Sida, 2003Compulsory*
• Hudson, Valerie M et al., The Heart of the Matter: The Security of Women and the Security of States, International Security 33 (3):7-45, 2008Compulsory*
• Hultman, Lisa, The Power to Hurt in Civil War: The Strategic Aim of RENAMO Violence, Journal of Southern African Studies 35 (4):821-34, 2009Compulsory*
• Hussein, Karim; Sumberg, James; Seddon, David, 'Increasing Violent Conflict between Herders and Farmers in Africa: Claims and Evidence, Development Policy Review 17: 397-418, 1999Compulsory*
• Melander, Erik; Öberg, Magnus; Hall, Jonathan, Are 'New Wars' More Atrocious? Battle Intensity, Civilians Killed and Forced Migration Before and After the End of the Cold War, European Journal of International Relations 15 (3): 505-536, 2009Compulsory*
• Solingen, Etel, Pax Asiatica versus Bella Levantina: The Foundations of War and Peace in East Asia and the Middle East, American Political Science Review 101 (4):757-780, 2007Compulsory*
• Stewart, Frances, Conflict and the Millennium Development Goals, Journal of Human Development 4 (3):325-351, 2003Compulsory*
• Turner, Matthew D, Political Ecology and the Moral Dimensions of 'Resource Conflicts', Political Geography 23(7): 863-889Compulsory*

* Compulsory