‘Aid Power and Politics’ is a collective book that aims a filling this void by analysing the domestic political roots of aid policy as well as its use as an international relation from a theoretical and empirical point of view –taking into account the evolving role of those roots and uses. This book reconsiders aid policy as part of international relations. It assumes that the domestic-foreign/international/global nexus (through development policy) works in both directions: countries have the capacity to shape global norms but, at the same time, global norms have the capacity to shape the political behaviour of countries.
The aim of this workshop was to discuss the book’s contents and engage in a conversation on the politics of aid both among scholars and with practitioners in the fields of foreign policy and global aid.
TopicInternational Cooperation & Development