01455pab a2200133 454500008004000000100002100040245005100061260000900112300001600121520112500137650001501262650001801277773002601295180718b2004   xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aAbrahamsen, Rita  aThe power of partnerships of global governance  c2004  ap.1453-467.  aDevelopment partnerships are frequently represented as a way of giving recipient countries `ownership' of their development programmes, whereas critics argue that partnerships are little more than conditionality by another name. Drawing on analyses of governmentality in modern liberal societies, this article advances an alternative understanding and argues that development partnerships can be regarded as a form of advanced liberal rule that increasingly govern through the explicit commitment to the self-government and agency of recipient states. Focusing in particular on the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) and Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs), it argues that as a form of advanced liberal power, partnerships work not primarily as direct domination and imposition, but through promises of incorporation and inclusion. They derive their power through simultaneously excluding and incorporating, and by using freedom as a formula of rule partnerships help produce modern, self-disciplined citizens and states by enlisting them as responsible agents in their own development. - Reproduced.  aGovernment  aGlobalization  aThird World Quarterly