Since 1944 (Bretton Woods creation), the international community has touted ‘partnership’ and ‘collaboration’ as essential to ‘development.’  These ideas actually have a deeper history, and are, in the most part, exquisitely colonial.  This class updates these ideas to 2025, and will parse both a) long standing failures that we keep repeating and b) wildly wonderful emerging ideas/practices that few grad students are being taught.