This volume explores how international organizations became involved in the making of global development policy, and looks at the driving forces and dynamics behind that process, critically assessing the consequences their policies have had around the world.

1. Introduction; Marc Frey, Sönke Kunkel, Corinna Unger 2. Technical Internationalism and 'Economic Development' at the Founding Moment of the UN System; Daniel Speich 3. Development, the Human Story: Alva Myrdal at the UN, 1949 - 1956; Glenda Sluga 4. 'Keep Food Out of Politics:' The UN Food and Agriculture Organization, 1945 - 1965; Ruth Jachertz 5. Negotiations and Dependencies: The United Nations Organizations, Private Foundations, and the Shaping of Nutrition and Development Policies at the Central American Institute of Nutrition (INCAP), 1946 - 1978; Corinne Pernet 6. In the Name of World Health and Development: The World Health Organization and Malaria Eradication in India, 1949 - 1970; Thomas Zimmer 7. Free Trade and Freedom to Trade: The Development Challenge to GATT, 1947-1968; Francine McKenzie 8. A Club of the Rich to Help the Poor? The OECD as an Unduly Neglected Actor in the Field of 'Development'; Matthias Schmelzer 9. A 'Global Nervous System:' The Rise and Rise of Humanitarian NGOs; Kevin O'Sullivan 10. Of Heart-Felt Charity and Billion Dollar Enterprise: The Rise of Humanitarian NGOs after World War II - A Case Study of CARE; Heike Wieters 11. Contesting Globalization: The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development and the Transnationalization of Sovereignty; Sönke Kunkel