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Ideas, Interests and Foreign Aid

Ideas, Interests and Foreign Aid

Van Der Veen, A. Maurits

Hardcover

Series: Cambridge Studies in International Relations, Book 120

EconomicsInternational Relations

ISBN10: 110700974X
ISBN13: 9781107009745
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Sep 1 2011
Pages: 310
Weight: 1.27
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Why do countries give foreign aid? Although many countries have official development assistance programs, this book argues that no two of them see the purpose of these programs in the same way. Moreover, the way countries frame that purpose has shaped aid policy choices past and present. The author examines how Belgium long gave aid out of a sense of obligation to its former colonies, The Netherlands was more interested in pursuing international influence, Italy has focused on the reputational payoffs of aid flows and Norwegian aid has had strong humanitarian motivations since the beginning. But at no time has a single frame shaped any one country's aid policy exclusively. Instead, analyzing half a century of legislative debates on aid in these four countries, this book presents a unique picture both of cross-national and over time patterns in the salience of different aid frames and of varying aid programs that resulted.

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