New actors and alliances in development / Stefano Ponte -- Business as a development agent : evidence of possibility and improbability / Michael Blowfield and Catherine S. Dolan -- Trade, consumption and development alliances : the historical legacy of the Empire Marketing Board poster campaign / Uma Kothari -- Buying into development? Brand Aid forms of cause-related marketing / Stefano Ponte and Lisa Ann Richey -- The production and construction of celebrity advocacy in international development / Dan Brockington -- The philanthropic state : market-state hybrids in the philanthrocapitalist turn / Linsey McGoey -- The politics of industrial policy : ruling elites and their alliances / Lindsay Whitfield and Lars Buur -- 'Donors go home' : non-traditional state actors and the creation of development space in Zambia / Peter Kragelund -- Diasporas as development partners for peace? The alliance between the Darfuri diaspora and the Save Darfur Coalition / Alexandra Cosima Budabin -- New development alternatives or business as usual with a new face? The transformative potential of new actors and alliances in development / Nicola Banks and David Hulme.