In order to fully understand the political significance and impact of aid, it is important to emphasize what forms of assistance fall under the less considered and yet crucial in our view category of international aid among sovereign states, intended as an open multi-level relation that puts in a dynamic and often political dimension the relation between a donor and a recipient. The article is divided into two parts. The first section is structured as an introduction to aid as it has historically developed after the fall of the Berlin wall, with a focus on the development and scope of aid’s evolution as an effective political tool on international relations, especially in the hands of nation states. This section is also used as an opportunity to introduce the use of the concept of International Aid Public Policies (IAPP), instead of the conventional one of Foreign Aid. Second, the chapter lists some of the strategic rationale and most frequent tactics that have animated the public donor when it has decided to support NGOs financially, with a particular focus on the two most dramatic examples of aid intervention since the beginning of the nineties, namely the post-war transitions in the Balkans and the post-communist ones in the former Soviet countries, starting from Russia.
Feeding the Trojan Horse: International Aid Policies in support to NGOs (1990-2015)
pellicciari
2017
Abstract
In order to fully understand the political significance and impact of aid, it is important to emphasize what forms of assistance fall under the less considered and yet crucial in our view category of international aid among sovereign states, intended as an open multi-level relation that puts in a dynamic and often political dimension the relation between a donor and a recipient. The article is divided into two parts. The first section is structured as an introduction to aid as it has historically developed after the fall of the Berlin wall, with a focus on the development and scope of aid’s evolution as an effective political tool on international relations, especially in the hands of nation states. This section is also used as an opportunity to introduce the use of the concept of International Aid Public Policies (IAPP), instead of the conventional one of Foreign Aid. Second, the chapter lists some of the strategic rationale and most frequent tactics that have animated the public donor when it has decided to support NGOs financially, with a particular focus on the two most dramatic examples of aid intervention since the beginning of the nineties, namely the post-war transitions in the Balkans and the post-communist ones in the former Soviet countries, starting from Russia.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
