The Role of Political Power in the Context of International Development Cooperation
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Abstract
The theoretical foundations of development aid and the question of how to provide it correctly and without causing further harm are central to academic thinking on the subject. In this paper, we examine the forms and extent to which soft and hard power manifest themselves in international aid relations. Our line of thinking is based on the consideration that international aid is part of politics in the broadest sense and typically takes place between state actors. Therefore, we first examine power in the international relations system as a whole and then turn to aid cooperation with the aim of highlighting the theoretical conditions that shape regimes and can determine and reinterpret the donor-recipient relationship.
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