Strategic Aid: Explaining The Motives And Choices Of International Donors
Journal: Digital Archive @ GSU
Year: 2022

Foreign aid, as one of the most ?baffling? concepts of international politics according to Hans Morgenthau, is studied by scholars from various fields without a conclusive consensus on its causes. This dissertation project aims to understand and explain foreign aid motivation and distribution of major donor countries. As a multipurpose foreign policy tool, foreign aid is often associated with negative consequences at the recipient end such as causing corruption, sustaining authoritarian leaders