National Security and Humanitarianism? Is USAID based on needs alone (original) (raw)

2011

Abstract

ABSTRACT: The United States has made repeated public commitments to provide humanitarian aid based on needs alone. However, scholars suggest that foreign policy goals also are important and likely stronger predictors of US humanitarian assistance. We examine the tension between raison d'état and morality that potentially exists in US government humanitarian initiatives by studying the aid decisions of the US Agency for International Development's (USAID) Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA) for ...

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