New Europe S New Development Aid

Author : Balázs Szent-Iványi,Simon Lightfoot
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136010644

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New Europe's New Development Aid by Balázs Szent-Iványi,Simon Lightfoot Pdf

This book examines the international development policies of five East Central European new EU member states, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia. These countries turned from being aid recipients to donors after the turn of the millennium in the run-up to EU accession in 2004. The book explains the evolution subsequent to EU accession and current state of foreign aid policies in the region and the reasons why these deviate from many of the internationally agreed best practices in development cooperation. It argues that after the turn of the millennium, a 'Global Consensus' has emerged on how to make foreign aid more effective for development. A comparison between the elements of the Global Consensus and the performance of the five countries reveals that while they have generally implemented little of these recommendations, there are also emerging differences between the countries, with the Czech Republic and Slovenia clearly aspiring to become globally responsible donors. Building on the literatures on foreign policy analysis, international socialization and interest group influence, the book develops a model of foreign aid policy making in order to explain the general reluctance of the five countries in implementing international best practices, and also the differences in their relative performance.

Author : Balázs Szent-Iványi,Simon Lightfoot
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2015-04-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136010569

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New Europe's New Development Aid by Balázs Szent-Iványi,Simon Lightfoot Pdf

This book examines the international development policies of five East Central European new EU member states, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia. These countries turned from being aid recipients to donors after the turn of the millennium in the run-up to EU accession in 2004. The book explains the evolution subsequent to EU accession and current state of foreign aid policies in the region and the reasons why these deviate from many of the internationally agreed best practices in development cooperation. It argues that after the turn of the millennium, a 'Global Consensus' has emerged on how to make foreign aid more effective for development. A comparison between the elements of the Global Consensus and the performance of the five countries reveals that while they have generally implemented little of these recommendations, there are also emerging differences between the countries, with the Czech Republic and Slovenia clearly aspiring to become globally responsible donors. Building on the literatures on foreign policy analysis, international socialization and interest group influence, the book develops a model of foreign aid policy making in order to explain the general reluctance of the five countries in implementing international best practices, and also the differences in their relative performance.

Author : Ondřej Horký-Hlucháň
Publisher : Springer
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2015-08-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137505415

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Development Cooperation of the ‘New’ EU Member States by Ondřej Horký-Hlucháň Pdf

The book provides a comprehensive analysis of the international development policies of ten Central and Eastern European countries that joined the EU between 2004 and 2007. The contributors offer the first thorough overview of the 'new' EU member states' development cooperation programmes, placing them in a larger political and societal context.

Author : Sebastian Steingass
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000197501

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Transnational Networks and EU International Cooperation by Sebastian Steingass Pdf

This book provides a timely evaluation of the EU’s ability to act internationally and coordinate policy in a time when it also seeks to meet shifting demands of international cooperation. These include global sustainable development, the challenge of multilateralism and the changing geopolitical order. Analysing the networks of officials and policy professionals in EU development policy, the book yields theoretical insights into dominant processes that characterise EU governance in international cooperation and assesses their role for policy coordination. Overall, this book concludes that EU policy coordination evades intergovernmental control and demonstrates how the agency of EU institutions depends on efforts of member state officials to defend their priorities and identities. Finally, it shows the need to better understand the EU as a collective international actor, beyond the widespread concern with institutional adjustments, which continuously fail to produce the intended outcomes. This text will be of key interest to scholars and students of European and EU politics, EU foreign policy, EU external relations and more broadly to international relations and international development.

Author : Amelia Hadfield,Ian Manners,Richard G. Whitman
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2017-06-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351997225

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Foreign Policies of EU Member States by Amelia Hadfield,Ian Manners,Richard G. Whitman Pdf

Foreign Policies of EU Member States provides a clear and current overview of the motivations and outcomes of EU Member States regarding their foreign policy-making within and beyond the EU. It provides an in-depth analysis of intra-EU policy-making and sheds light, in an innovative and understandable way, on the lesser-known aspects of the inter-EU and extra-EU foreign policies of the twenty-eight Member States: First, EU Member States must cooperate within the mechanisms of the EU, including the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP). Second, EU, Member States continue to construct their own inter-EU foreign policies. Third, the sovereign prerogative exercised by all EU Member States is to construct their own foreign policies on everything from trade and defence with the rest of the world. This combination of clarity, thematic structure and empirical case studies make this an ideal textbook for all upper-level students of European foreign policy, comparative European politics and European studies. -- from back cover.

Author : V. Dimier
Publisher : Springer
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137318275

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The Invention of a European Development Aid Bureaucracy by V. Dimier Pdf

A comprehensive analysis of how European development policy was shaped, this book explores the role of former colonial officials in shaping the policy agenda and explores this example of 'recycled empire.' Dimier argues that this post-colonial agenda only changed as a result of pressure from the OECD and World Bank in the 1980s and 1990s.

Author : Tom Hashimoto,Michael Rhimes
Publisher : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-25
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004352070

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Reviewing European Union Accession by Tom Hashimoto,Michael Rhimes Pdf

Today, we celebrate the decade-long European integration in CEE, even though the ‘Brexit’ is knocking our door. What have we achieved? How is the acquis communautaire reflected on to the actual integration process(es)? Reviewing European Union Accession simulates the vast wave of EU enlargement experienced by the New Member States.

Author : Paul Hoebink
Publisher : Springer
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2014-12-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137009777

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Private Development Aid in Europe by Paul Hoebink Pdf

The authors present an overview of private development aid in Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, and the EU as a whole. They illustrate how private aid organisations receive support as well as the relations they have with their respective governments.

Author : Ondřej Horký-Hlucháň,Simon Lightfoot
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317980278

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Development Policies of Central and Eastern European States by Ondřej Horký-Hlucháň,Simon Lightfoot Pdf

The states from Central and Eastern Europe that joined the EU in 2004 and 2007 provide a fascinating series of case studies for scholars interested in politics, IR and development studies. The interest comes from the fact that never before had so many recipients of EU aid joined the Union and taken on the commitment to become aid donors. The journey from recipients of aid to aid donors is interesting because, not only does it tell us about development policy in CEE states, this policy area gives us an insight into governmental structures in CEE states, foreign policy priorities, public opinion, the role of NGOs/civil society and how well CEE states have taken on board the EU acquis (the EU’s rule book). The book also explores whether the development cooperation programmes of the majority of CEESs reflect the so-called "transition experience" of moving from authoritarianism and socialism to democracy and modern liberalism. It also explores the extent to which these donors are aligned with the approaches of the DAC donors. Finally, by extending the scrutiny to the bottom-up development activities of non-state actors and public opinion, the book will analyse the dynamics of the solidarity of the former ‘East’ with the global ‘South’. This book was published as a special issue of Perspectives on European Politics and Society

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Austria
ISBN : UCBK:C049361758

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Austrian Information by Anonim Pdf

Author : Wolfgang Glatzer,Laura Camfield,Valerie Møller,Mariano Rojas
Publisher : Springer
Page : 878 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2015-01-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789401791786

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Global Handbook of Quality of Life by Wolfgang Glatzer,Laura Camfield,Valerie Møller,Mariano Rojas Pdf

This handbook provides a comprehensive historical account of the field of Quality of Life. It brings together theoretical insights and empirical findings and presents the main items of global quality of life and wellbeing research. Worldwide in its scope of topics, the handbook examines discussions of demographic and health development, the spread of democracy, global economic accounting, multi-item measurement of perceived satisfaction and expert-assessed quality of life and the well-being of children, women and poor people. It looks at well-being in specific regions, including North and Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, South America and Eastern and Western Europe. In addition to contributions by leading and younger authors, the handbook includes contributions from International Organizations about their own work with respect to social reporting.

Author : Gordon D. Cummings
Publisher : Institut de la gestion publique et du développement économique
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9782821838826

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France, Europe and Development Aid. From the Treaties of Rome to the Present Day by Gordon D. Cummings Pdf

This book is based on the proceedings of a major conference on France, Europe and development aid, from the Treaties of Rome to the present day, organised by the French Development Agency (AFD) and the Institute of Public Management and Economic Development (IGPDE). It presents, in the form of a dialogue between academics and major players in this field (Philippe de Fontaine Vive, Dieter Frisch, Omar Kabbaj, Bernard Petit, Dov Zerah and Tertius Zongo), an overview of development cooperation from the point of view of three key players: the AFD together with the French government, the European Commission and the recipient countries. France’s aid has, since 1945, clearly been driven by humanitarian, moral and political considerations as well as by the defence of French economic interests. It is one of the instruments of French influence in international relations. What is the role of French development assistance now that a “new” player, the European Commission, has been involved in this field since 1958? What sort of development policy do the Member States of the European Union and the Commission envisage? What role is there for France in the European dimension of assistance? Is there still room for official assistance within a liberalised economic area, in which private enterprise is paramount? The answers provided to these questions show that European societies do not view international relations simply in terms of economic confrontation or cold indifference. The conference on 8 December 2011 celebrated the 70th anniversary of the Agence Française de Développement (AFD), successor to the Caisse centrale de la France libre, which was created by General de Gaulle in London on 2 December 1941.

Author : Theocharis N. Grigoriadis
Publisher : Springer
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781461465829

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Aid in Transition by Theocharis N. Grigoriadis Pdf

This book is the one of the first to address aid effectiveness as a political and comparative economics question. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union and the transition of its republics to market structures and more representative forms of government, the European Commission has recognized the necessity of a closer economic cooperation with Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan, the three largest economies of the former Soviet Union. This book suggests that the foreign aid of the European Union provided a set of reform incentives to post-Soviet planners. It created the grounds for the institutional and social transformation of the bureaucracy at both central and regional levels by integrating it into the aid allocation process. In Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan, the observed subordination of NGOs to the developmental priorities of the bureaucracy occurred at the expense of diversity and political openness. Nevertheless, this reality led to the emergence of transnational sovereignty partnerships that reduced poverty for the general population and motivated both bureaucrats and entrepreneurs to cooperate. Empirical models alone are not sufficient to delineate all the aspects of principal-agent relationships in post-Soviet bureaucracies. This is why formal modeling and analysis of qualitative data are extremely useful. Evaluation reports indicate the problems and challenges faced by aid bureaucrats and suggest that the weakly institutionalized environments of Ukraine and Central Asia/Kazakhstan are less conducive to aid effectiveness than the heavily bureaucratized environment of Russia. The proposed incentives system for the allocation of foreign aid links EU foreign policy with bureaucratic decision-making and reflects the choice sets of the donor and the recipient. Multilevel definitions of aid effectiveness are provided in the course of the book chapters.

Author : Yijia Jing,Alvaro Mendez,Yu Zheng
Publisher : Springer
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789811372322

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New Development Assistance by Yijia Jing,Alvaro Mendez,Yu Zheng Pdf

This book explores the changing face of development assistance. China's One Belt, One Road development program is the largest international investment scheme in history, surpassing the Marshall Plan by an order of magnitude. In 2017, a group of top scholars from Fudan, the London School of Economics, and other institutions like the Institute of Development Studies, Australian National University, and World Bank gathered to share findings and ideas about the nature of New Development Assistance. A compilation of their findings, this book will be of interest to NGOs, policymakers, and academics.

Author : Thomas Carothers,Diane de Gramont
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780870034022

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Development Aid Confronts Politics by Thomas Carothers,Diane de Gramont Pdf

A new lens on development is changing the world of international aid. The overdue recognition that development in all sectors is an inherently political process is driving aid providers to try to learn how to think and act politically. Major donors are pursuing explicitly political goals alongside their traditional socioeconomic aims and introducing more politically informed methods throughout their work. Yet these changes face an array of external and internal obstacles, from heightened sensitivity on the part of many aid-receiving governments about foreign political interventionism to inflexible aid delivery mechanisms and entrenched technocratic preferences within many aid organizations. This pathbreaking book assesses the progress and pitfalls of the attempted politics revolution in development aid and charts a constructive way forward. Contents: Introduction 1. The New Politics Agenda The Original Framework: 1960s-1980s 2. Apolitical Roots Breaking the Political Taboo: 1990s-2000s 3. The Door Opens to Politics 4. Advancing Political Goals 5. Toward Politically Informed Methods The Way Forward 6. Politically Smart Development Aid 7. The Unresolved Debate on Political Goals 8. The Integration Frontier Conclusion 9. The Long Road to Politics