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Discussing the future of INGOs is more relevant than ever at this moment, not least because over the global financial system looms a resilient question mark (the crisis), and because simultaneously we are undergoing a redefinition of the sovereignty of the nation-state. This puts a double strain on the availability of development funds; the future of INGOs is intimately correlated with the shifting structure of states, both donors and recipients of aid.

INGOs are usually active in countries that most would characterize as being ‘failed states and/or ‘renter states’. This is not surprising. Failed states are called failed because they do not control domains of life (or even territories), cannot or would not involve themselves in building the framework for the wellbeing of their citizens (starting with education and health), etc. These are interstitial spaces that INGOs, up to now, predominantly moved into to supplement the absence or the strategic retreat of the state.

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