Published in 2006 the book introduces a new relational perspective on the analysis of aid management, exploring the links between, power, learning and accountability in a complex web of relationships. Primarily targeting a practitioner audience, it presents rich theory in an accessible style.

Later, I theoretically developed my perspectives on aid relationships, particularly in ‘Relationships matter: the best kept secret of international aid?’ and in a longer more academy piece ‘Hiding relations. The irony of international aid’