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US-Pakistan Foreign Aid Regime: Changing Trends from the Cold War to the War on Terror

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US-Pakistan Foreign Aid Regime: Changing Trends from the Cold War to the War on Terror

Abstract

The research employs US-Pakistan foreign aid relations as a case study and examines how the foreign aid policy of the United States evolved in response to two substantial political developments: the end of the Cold War in 1990 and the eruption of the War on Terror in 2001. The research finds that during the bipolar competition of the Cold War, Pakistan’s strategic importance for the US’s containment policy of the Soviet Union was a crucial factor affecting the foreign aid flows. The end of the Cold War coincided with a reduction in the US’s foreign aid flows to Pakistan and disbursed aid conditioned to the normative criteria, as the political saliency of Pakistan to the US’s national interests waned. In the aftermath of the War on Terror, on the other hand, Pakistan’s rekindling of strategic importance led to a resurgence of US aid with less moral strings attached, albeit not reaching the Cold War levels. The findings endorse studies arguing from a state-centric approach, claiming that foreign aid allocations can be a foreign policy tool aimed at retrieving strategic political concessions from the recipient state, but the study also contends that systemic factors also function as a prominent intervening force.

Keywords

U.S foreign aid policy , Cold war , War on terror , U.S-Pakistan relations , Pakistan politics

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Kaynak Göster

APA
Küçük, Ö. N. (2024). US-Pakistan Foreign Aid Regime: Changing Trends from the Cold War to the War on Terror. Bölge Çalışmaları Dergisi, 3(2), 119-137. https://izlik.org/JA89CA67TB