Promoting Development

The Political Economy of East Asian Foreign Aid

Barbara Stallings, Eun Mee Kim

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN:
  9789811031649
• eBook ISBN:
  9789811031656
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Asian Politics
• Index: Social Sciences

This book offers a new approach to studying foreign aid in the 21 st century. While most analysts focus on the differences between traditional and emerging donors, Stallings and Kim here argue that a more important distinction is between East Asian donors and their western counterparts. Asian donors – Japan, South Korea, and China – cross the traditional and emerging divide and demonstrate a particular approach to development that draws on their own dramatic success. As East Asia continues its upward trajectory of economic development, the politics of aid can reveal surprising truths about the objectives and mechanisms of soft power and diplomacy in creating new networks in the region. This book will be of interest to NGO workers, scholars, and students of international relations, a critical part of research into Asia's rise and the emerging spheres of influence.

Table of contents

• Promoting Development
• 1 Asian versus Western Modes of Foreign Aid
• 2 Japan as a Traditional Donor in the Asian Mode
• 3 South Korea as an Emerging Asian Donor
• 4 China as a Non-Traditional Asian Donor
• 5 Vietnam as an Asian Recipient of Aid
• 6 Toward an Evaluation of East Asian Aid
• 7 Conclusions: East Asia and the Future of Foreign Aid
• References
• Index