Reconciling Foreign Aid and Global Security
- 발행기관 서강대학교 국제대학원
- 지도교수 김재천
- 발행년도 2006
- 학위수여년월 200608
- 학위명 석사
- 학과 및 전공 국제대학원
- 식별자(기타) 000000103211
- 본문언어 영어
초록/요약
Foreign aid has long been one of the major US foreign policy agendas at least since the era of Marshall Plan. The purported objective of US foreign aid policy is to induce political and economic developments of the target societies of American aid. But, simply put, the Cold War security imperatives of the US had dictated the US foreign aid policies during the Cold War era. Meanwhile, neo-Wilsonian foreign aid policy has been behind President G. W. Bush since 9？11. After 9？11 President Bush now uses the language of promotion of liberty and enlarging zone of durable peace more comfortably. To cope with root causes of terrorism, the US should help building statehood in failed states and promote developments. The establishment of Millennium Challenge Account (MCA) means American aid would bring about developments by selecting countries that are committed to political and economic liberalism. But the reality is that many of the countries that are in greatest needs of external assistance are not receiving the benefits of American help, because those countries score very low on the standards imposed by the US. Rather, big portion of American money is going into countries such as Israel and Egypt ？ relatively rich countries that do not need American money for development, but important to the immediate security needs of the US. Liberal international relations theories emphasizing the link between development and American long-term security interests are at the basis of American foreign aid policies both during the Cold War era and Post 9？11. These theories supporting American foreign aid emphasize the link between American aid and long-term security interests of the US. That is, US foreign aid would promote developments (both economic and political) in the target states of the US aid, because ？emocracies would not fight against each other？ and ？conomically interdependent countries would not fight against each other.？ But the US has given more priorities to promoting short-term and immediate security interests by rewarding and incentivizing frontline state of the US by using American money. In this sense, the essence of American foreign aid has not changed from the Cold War era to the Post 9.11 era.
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