“History does not repeat, but it instruct” (2017, 9) is Timothy Snyder’s opening line in On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century. The book provides a powerful warning against c...

In 2011, the Busan Forum on Development Effectiveness announced creation of Global Partnership for Effective Cooperation (GPEDC). The GPEDC promised to replace old donor–recipient dynamic in international development with ‘an equator-less landscape multistakeholder global partnership’ (Eyben & Savage, 2013). Multistakeholder partnerships (MSPs) have since become governance modality choice UN Su...