Testing Models of U.S. Foreign Policy: Foreign Aid during and after the Cold War

Meernik, James; Krueger, Eric L.; Poe, Steven C.

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“…Strategic motives have been measured by analyzing United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) voting relationships (Alesina and Dollar 2000), trade and treaty memberships (Meernik, Krueger, and Poe 1998), colonial history, human rights records (Poe and Tate 1994), and levels of democracy. Most of these studies focus on one donor at a time, to insure that case-specific interests are included in the study.…”

Section: Conflict and Allocationmentioning

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Giving and Receiving Foreign Aid: Does Conflict Count?

Balla

Reinhardt

2008

World Development

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Section: Conflict and Allocationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Giving and Receiving Foreign Aid: Does Conflict Count?

Balla

Reinhardt

2008

World Development

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“…The question of whether more democratic countries tend to receive higher portions of foreign aid has yielded mixed results in the literature. For example, although Meernik et al (1998) find evidence for such an effect for US assistance allocations, McKinlay and Little (1979) do not. Yet, the EU has identified the protection and consolidation of democracy, the rule of law and human rights as core values of its development policy.…”

Section: The Logic Of Reaction To External Focusing Eventsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Although a focusing event anywhere abroad could constitute an indirect security threat, states may be more likely to show an interest in their security partners (see e.g. Meernik et al 1998). The core reason for this is that military allies will be the ones to turn to in the event of major domestic security problems.…”

Section: The Logic Of Reaction To External Focusing Eventsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In particular, the decision to pay attention to an event could depend on strategic interests of a geopolitical, security or economic nature (Kato 1969;Kaplan 1975;Dudley and Montmarquette 1976;McKinlay and Little 1977, 1978, 1979Meernik et al 1998;Van Belle et al 2004;Nelson 2012). Although this category includes a large range of theoretically relevant determinants, the logic behind their effect is generally the same.…”

Section: The Logic Of Reaction To External Focusing Eventsmentioning

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Upsetting the agenda: the clout of external focusing events in the European Council

Alexandrova

2015

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: Focusing events are sudden, striking large-scale occurrences that attract political attention. However, not all potential focusing events appear on the agenda. Combining data from multiple sources, this study conducts an analysis of the determinants of prioritisation of external focusing events in the European Council over a period longer than two decades. The results demonstrate that decisions regarding the placement of crises on the agenda are underscored by exogenous (humanitarian) and endogenous (geopolitical interest) considerations. Those events with a higher likelihood of agenda access include manmade incidents (versus natural disasters), events with larger death tolls and crises in the neighbourhood. Stronger competition between potential focusing events across time and space reduces the chances of access. The level of attention each event receives depends on purely strategic interests. Focusing events in neighbouring countries gain a higher portion of attention, as do occurrences in states having a larger trade exchange with the European Union.

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“…2 For some donor countries, most especially the USA, it is all the more compelling to investigate whether or not the financial assistance that they provide to other countries really produce its intended outcomes. 3 To be sure, one of those envisioned outcomes of foreign assistance, at least for the USA, is stronger human rights protection in aid recipient countries-a policy goal that even became more important since the end of the Cold War (Meernik et al 1998;Cingranelli and Richards 1999). Each year, thousands if not millions of human lives suffer or die because of the abuses committed by government agents, who are, in fact, expected to honor the human rights commitments of the state.…”

Section: What We Know So Far: Foreign Aid and Human Rights In The Litmentioning

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Does US Foreign Aid Undermine Human Rights? The 'Thaksinification' of the War on Terror Discourses and the Human Rights Crisis in Thailand, 2001 to 2006

Regilme

2018

SSRN Journal

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What is the relationship between Thailand's human rights crisis during Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra's leadership (2001)(2002)(2003)(2004)(2005)(2006) and the USA-led post-9/11 war on terror? Why did the human rights situation dramatically deteriorate after the Thaksin regime publicly supported the Bush administration's war on terror and consequently received US counterterror assistance? This article offers two conceptual arguments that jointly demonstrate a constitutive theoretical explanation, which shows that counterterror and militaristic transnational and national discursive structures enabled the strategy of state repression in Thailand under Thaksin. The first concept refers to strategic localization, which refers to how the Bush administration's global war on terror-and its consequent overarching emphasis on military security-provided an opportunity for the Thaksin administration to strategically localize the global threat of terrorism in ways that could seem relevant to the local Thai context. The second concept pertains to resource mobilization, which shows how converging US and Thai discourses on military security facilitated Thaksin's strategy of increased state repression that led to the proliferation of state-led human rights abuses. This research article contributes to the human rights literature in two ways: (1) by highlighting how foreign aid programs and its constitutive political discourses shape recipient countries' domestic human rights situation (2) and by tracing the macropolitical factors that lead to the eventual democratic decay of contemporary Thailand.Hum Rights Rev

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Testing Models of U.S. Foreign Policy: Foreign Aid during and after the Cold War

Cited by 255 publications

References 46 publications

Giving and Receiving Foreign Aid: Does Conflict Count?

Giving and Receiving Foreign Aid: Does Conflict Count?

Upsetting the agenda: the clout of external focusing events in the European Council

Does US Foreign Aid Undermine Human Rights? The 'Thaksinification' of the War on Terror Discourses and the Human Rights Crisis in Thailand, 2001 to 2006

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