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The research on the Central and Eastern European (CEE) donors seems to follow the following famous quote from Hegel: ‘The owl of Minerva takes its flight only when the shades of night are gathering’ (Hegel, 2008, p. xxi). This is true in two overlapping ways: scholarly research usually comes after political practice, and a theoretical reflection builds on prior empirical findings.
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© 2015 Ondřej Horký-Hlucháň
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Horký-Hluch n, O. (2015). Introduction: Diverging Theoretical Approaches to a Normative Research Field. In: Horký-Hluch n, O., Lightfoot, S. (eds) Development Cooperation of the ‘New’ EU Member States. EADI Global Development Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137505415_1
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