Re-Framing Foreign Aid History and Politics : From the Fall of the Berlin Wall to the Covid-19 Outbreak

Pellicciari, Igor

ISBN 10: 0367641828 / ISBN 13: 9780367641825

Published by Routledge, 2024

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Re-Framing Foreign Aid History and Politics : From the Fall of the Berlin Wall to the Covid-19 Outbreak
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0367641828
• ISBN 13: 9780367641825
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

This 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.

In 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 Aid. This framework of analysis is applied to several historical cases, from the post-conflict transition in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the post-Soviet one in Russia in the 1990s to the medical Aid to Italy and Russian vaccine diplomacy to the Republic of San Marino during the COVID-19 pandemic. In the end, the book identifies ten major trends that have shaped the dynamics of the relationship between Donors and Recipients over the past few decades, and on a more general level, traces the impact that State Funded Aid has had on the international system.

By arguing that, on the whole, Donors have had greater political interests than Recipients, the book takes a fresh and original look at Aid as instrument of Power Politics. It will be of great interest to students, scholars, and practitioners of Foreign Aid and foreign policy, and to all those interested in analysing how they have been affected by the global pandemic.

About the Author

Igor Pellicciari is a full professor of History of International Institutions and Relations at the University of Urbino Carlo Bo, Italy. He is also Contract Professor at LUISS Guido Carli University, Rome, Italy. For over 25 years, he has been a senior EU expert on international technical assistance programmes. He collaborates with several international organizations and governments on the establishment of State Aid and Cooperation Agencies and in providing high-level policy advice geared towards institution building and State reform in transition countries. He is also a diplomat of the Republic of San Marino, accredited as Ambassador to the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. He has consulted on the Sputnik V vaccine deal for the country and received the country’s highest state honour, Commendatore dell’Ordine Equestre di Sant'Agata.