.In the past decades, India and other emerging developing economies have been playing a growing role in global development, mostly through what is known as South-South Cooperation (SSC). This presentation explores some of the ways accountability has been understood, disputed and negotiated within India in the context of country's growing development cooperation role. Looking at accountability politics in the context of India's SSC can reveal ongoing disputes over India's international identity as both a 'Southern/developing country' as well as a 'rising power'. It also reveals domestic disputes over foreign policymaking and over the very idea of development within India.  

Laura Trajber Waisbich is a Social Sciences Division Postdoctoral Fellow at the Oxford School of Global and Area Studies. Her research focuses on rising powers in international development. She is particularly interested in unpacking the disputes over the growing role developing countries like China, India and Brazil play in this field. Dr. Trajber Waisbich has a PhD in Geography from the University of Cambridge and over 10 years of policy and research experience working for non-for-profit organisations in the field of development, human rights and foreign policy