서강대학교

초록/요약 도움말

The research question of this thesis asks why some countries manifest stronger international commitment to aid volume while others are passive. The hypothesis states that it is the intensity of multilateral cooperation, especially donor-harmonization which affects the donor country to support stable international development support. The study of this thesis proposes a theory of multilateral cooperation among donors that transcends the conventional debate on ‘national interests through Official Development Assistance (ODA)’ versus ‘humanitarian norms’ debate. This study informs the foreign aid debate by empirically analyzing the processes of multilateral ODA of two countries: Denmark and New Zealand. Especially, Chapter 3 deals with case studies of Denmark and New Zealand in three theoretical frameworks: institutional form, set of rules and generalized principles, and reduction of transaction costs. The finding in Chapter 4 suggests that it is not the amount of multilateral cooperation that leads to strong commitment to ODA. Rather, it is with whom, and how involved the donor country is with other donor partnership. As the final outcome, it stresses the importance of forming a partnership with neighboring donors or like-minded countries.