General budget support has become one major form of developmental aid after 2000 – but what does it actually consist of? In this project, this policy shall be analyzed as a legal-rational form of i
nternationalized rule with bureaucratic means. Combining classical political sociology and science and technology studies, the project will build on an extensive case study on Uganda, however, in a comparative perspective. The project aims at an anthropological innovation of our understanding of international relations and on a renewed and extended interpretation of Weberian political sociology. ... [more]