Strategic Altruism: Analyzing Development Aid for Donor Strategic Objectives. A quantitative analysis of the strategic interests influencing European aid flows
(2024) FKVK02 20241Department of Political Science
- Abstract
- Based on the geopolitical situation in Europe and the European Union's (EU) initiative for further cooperation with its eastern neighborhood, this thesis analyzes the strategic interests behind the bilateral development aid allocation of the EU member states. The purpose is to, with a focus on aid directed to the Eastern Partnership states, provide the academic foreign aid field with a regional analysis of motives within the EU and its neighborhood.
Based on a theoretical framework combining realist IR-theory with models of the literature regarding aid motivations, this thesis is based on the consensus that national strategic interests are the main goal for the donor states of development aid. Through a quantitative statistical... (More) - Based on the geopolitical situation in Europe and the European Union's (EU) initiative for further cooperation with its eastern neighborhood, this thesis analyzes the strategic interests behind the bilateral development aid allocation of the EU member states. The purpose is to, with a focus on aid directed to the Eastern Partnership states, provide the academic foreign aid field with a regional analysis of motives within the EU and its neighborhood.
Based on a theoretical framework combining realist IR-theory with models of the literature regarding aid motivations, this thesis is based on the consensus that national strategic interests are the main goal for the donor states of development aid. Through a quantitative statistical analysis, hypotheses regarding whether economic, security or/and political interests influence the European aid flows are tested.
The findings include that the political ideology (left-right) affects how the EU states prioritize their aid, as right-wing states focus more aid to the EaP-area. Addressing security interests, geographical proximity to the EaP border is found influential, illustrating that EaP-border states are more interested in this area due to security objectives. These findings provide knowledge of the internal foreign policy divides of the EU, questioning a united approach to the ENP. Also, it both supports previous research with regional examples, while also criticizing the common divides in the field. (Less)
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- author
- Welén, Ida LU
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- FKVK02 20241
- year
- 2024
- type
- M2 - Bachelor Degree
- subject
- keywords
- Development aid, ODA, donor interest model, European Union, Eastern Partnership
- language
- English
- id
- 9154068
- date added to LUP
- 2024-07-18 14:06:44
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abstract = {{Based on the geopolitical situation in Europe and the European Union's (EU) initiative for further cooperation with its eastern neighborhood, this thesis analyzes the strategic interests behind the bilateral development aid allocation of the EU member states. The purpose is to, with a focus on aid directed to the Eastern Partnership states, provide the academic foreign aid field with a regional analysis of motives within the EU and its neighborhood.
Based on a theoretical framework combining realist IR-theory with models of the literature regarding aid motivations, this thesis is based on the consensus that national strategic interests are the main goal for the donor states of development aid. Through a quantitative statistical analysis, hypotheses regarding whether economic, security or/and political interests influence the European aid flows are tested.
The findings include that the political ideology (left-right) affects how the EU states prioritize their aid, as right-wing states focus more aid to the EaP-area. Addressing security interests, geographical proximity to the EaP border is found influential, illustrating that EaP-border states are more interested in this area due to security objectives. These findings provide knowledge of the internal foreign policy divides of the EU, questioning a united approach to the ENP. Also, it both supports previous research with regional examples, while also criticizing the common divides in the field.}},
author = {{Welén, Ida}},
language = {{eng}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{Strategic Altruism: Analyzing Development Aid for Donor Strategic Objectives. A quantitative analysis of the strategic interests influencing European aid flows}},
year = {{2024}},
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