Abstract
Summary Björn Hettne, ‘The Future of Development Studies’, Forum for Development Studies, No. 1–2, 1994, pp. 41–71. The article presents an overview of recent debates in development theory symbolically linked to three major events: the Gulf War, the Berlin Wall and the Rio Conference. These events raise three sets of issues: the problem of world order and the need to discuss development issues in an international political economy context, the recurring issue of the role of the state, particularly in the new context of post-communism, and the revival of alternative development thinking in view of the overwhelming evidence of impending ecological disasters and ethnic warfare.
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