Re-Framing Foreign Aid History and Politics by Igor Pellicciari - 9780367641702

Taylor & Francis

Re-Framing Foreign Aid History and PoliticsFrom the Fall of the Berlin Wall to the COVID-19 Outbreak\nAuthor(s): Igor Pellicciari\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367641702, 978-0367641702\nSynopsis\nThis book presents an integrated analysis, at once conceptual, historical, and political, of the growing impact of State Funded Aid on international relations, particularly after the collapse of the Berlin Wall and the end of the bipolar system.\n\nIn order to observe Aid as an emerging instrument of foreign policy, the book develops an original approach which puts Donors and Recipients on the same level and examines the political dynamics of their relationship. The focus shifts from looking at the needs covered by Aid interventions to the political motivations of Donors and Recipients. Aid is reconceptualized to include any transaction on favourable terms between these two parties, regardless of the object of that A.