Author : Bethany Barratt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 28,41 MB
Release : 2007-12-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1135984085
This book examines the role played by human rights in foreign policy and the determinants of foreign aid, documenting patterns in the relationships between trade, domestic politics and aid.
Author : Katarina Tomaševski
Publisher : Burns & Oates
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 26,65 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Economic assistance
ISBN :
Populations for the sins of their rulers.
Author : Salvador Santino Fulo Regilme
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 22,65 MB
Release : 2021-11-03
Category : HISTORY
ISBN : 0472132784
How US foreign policy affects state repression
Author : Jessica Trisko Darden
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 40,80 MB
Release : 2019-12-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1503611000
The United States is the world's leading foreign aid donor. Yet there has been little inquiry into how such assistance affects the politics and societies of recipient nations. Drawing on four decades of data on U.S. economic and military aid, Aiding and Abetting explores whether foreign aid does more harm than good. Jessica Trisko Darden challenges long-standing ideas about aid and its consequences, and highlights key patterns in the relationship between assistance and violence. She persuasively demonstrates that many of the foreign aid policy challenges the U.S. faced in the Cold War era, such as the propping up of dictators friendly to U.S. interests, remain salient today. Historical case studies of Indonesia, El Salvador, and South Korea illustrate how aid can uphold human freedoms or propagate human rights abuses. Aiding and Abetting encourages both advocates and critics of foreign assistance to reconsider its political and social consequences by focusing international aid efforts on the expansion of human freedom.
Author : Georg Sorensen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 19,62 MB
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1135200904
Political conditionality involves the linking of development aid to certain standards of observance of human rights and (liberal) democracy in recipient countries. Although this may seem to be an innocent policy, it has the potential to bring about a dramatic change in the basic principles of the international system: putting human rights first means putting respect for individuals and rights before respect for the sovereignty of states.
Author : Simone Dietrich
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 49,40 MB
Release : 2021-11-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1316519201
Explores the different choices made by donor governments when delivering foreign aid projects around the world.
Author : G. Crawford
Publisher : Springer
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 36,6 MB
Release : 2000-12-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 023050924X
The linkage of development aid to the promotion of human rights, democracy and good governance was a striking departure in the post-cold war foreign policies of Northern 'donor' governments. Uniquely, this book provides a systematic and comparative investigation of policies and practices in the 1990s to promote political reform in Southern 'recipient' countries by four donors, the governments of Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States, plus the European Union. The use of both carrot and stick, that is democracy assistance and aid sanctions, is examined and sharp criticism of current practice offered.
Author : Thomas Carothers
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 20,57 MB
Release : 2013-04-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0870034022
A new lens on development is changing the world of international aid. The overdue recognition that development in all sectors is an inherently political process is driving aid providers to try to learn how to think and act politically. Major donors are pursuing explicitly political goals alongside their traditional socioeconomic aims and introducing more politically informed methods throughout their work. Yet these changes face an array of external and internal obstacles, from heightened sensitivity on the part of many aid-receiving governments about foreign political interventionism to inflexible aid delivery mechanisms and entrenched technocratic preferences within many aid organizations. This pathbreaking book assesses the progress and pitfalls of the attempted politics revolution in development aid and charts a constructive way forward. Contents: Introduction 1. The New Politics Agenda The Original Framework: 1960s-1980s 2. Apolitical Roots Breaking the Political Taboo: 1990s-2000s 3. The Door Opens to Politics 4. Advancing Political Goals 5. Toward Politically Informed Methods The Way Forward 6. Politically Smart Development Aid 7. The Unresolved Debate on Political Goals 8. The Integration Frontier Conclusion 9. The Long Road to Politics
Author : Liam Swiss
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 44,38 MB
Release : 2017-12-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1351337025
Why do aid agencies from wealthy donor countries with diverse domestic political and economic contexts arrive at very similar positions on a wide array of aid policies and priorities? This book suggests that this homogenization of policy represents the effects of common processes of globalization manifest in the aid sector. Drawing on both quantitative and qualitative analysis of policy adoption, the book argues that we need to examine macro-level globalizing influences at the same time as understanding the micro-level social processes at work within aid agencies, in order to adequately explain the so-called ‘emerging global consensus’ that constitutes the globalization of aid. The book explores how global influences on aid agencies in Canada, Sweden, and the United States are mediated through micro-level processes. Using a mixed-methods approach, the book combines cross-national statistical analysis at the global level with two comparative case studies which look at the adoption of common policy priorities in the fields of gender and security. The Globalization of Foreign Aid will be useful to researchers of foreign aid, development, international relations and globalization, as well as to the aid policy community.
Author : Haim Malka
Publisher : CSIS
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 26,59 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780892064861
"Talk of reform is on the lips of many in Morocco, from the salons to the slums, and far into the countryside. Moroccans talk about reform in their country as an imperative, and the country s young king has been a key driver. Because of that, Morocco has drawn the attention of governments in the United States and Europe, which have seen their own strategic interests being tied to economic, political, and social reform in the Middle East and North Africa. Given all of the interest in reform, are the Moroccans going about it the right way? Are outside powers playing the proper constructive role, or are they undermining their own and Moroccans efforts toward positive change? This study analyzes U.S. and European policies to promote reform in Morocco, as well as the efforts of Moroccans themselves, and it seeks to understand the most effective ways to create complementary strategies toward reform." -- Product description.
