Resurgence of the “Japan Model”?

Asian Survey ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 59 (6) ◽  
pp. 1044-1069 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hironori Sasada
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Foreign Aid ◽  
Traditional Approach ◽  
Development Assistance ◽  
Infrastructure Development ◽  
Aid Policy

One of the main focuses of the Abe administration’s foreign policy is overseas infrastructure development assistance. Evidence suggests that Japan has returned to its traditional approach to foreign aid, the “Japan model,” after an interval of a few decades. This article analyzes the international and domestic contexts behind the recent changes in Japan’s aid policy.

Human Rights Conditionality and Aid Allocation: Case Study of Japanese Foreign Aid Policy

2005 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 125-146 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fumitaka Furuoka
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Cold War ◽  
Foreign Aid ◽  
Panel Data Analysis ◽  
Development Assistance ◽  
Official Development Assistance ◽  
Economic Assistance ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
Aid Policy

AbstractThis paper examines a new trend in Japan's Official Development Assistance (ODA) policy that emerged at the end of the Cold War. In 1992, the Japanese government adopted the "Official Development Assistance Charter," which obliged Japan to use its foreign aid to promote human rights, democracy, and freedom. Since the beginning of the 1990s, there have been cases when Japan imposed "human rights conditionalities" by increasing the amount of foreign aid to the recipient countries with good human rights records and reducing economic assistance to the countries with poor human rights practices. However, there remain doubts whether Japan is truly committed to use its aid power as leverage to ensure that democracy and human rights are respected by the governments of its aid recipients. This paper uses panel data analysis to examine whether the condition of human rights in aid-recipient countries has become one of the factors that influence Japan's ODA allocation. The findings reveal the lack of evidence to prove that the human rights condition in aid-recipient countries has influenced the allocation of Japanese aid.

QATAR’S FOREIGN AID POLICY: EVOLUTION, MOTIVES AND VALUES

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-26
Author(s):  
Fadhl A. Bashir ◽  
Elfatih Abdelsalam
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Foreign Aid ◽  
Soft Power ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Policy Agenda ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Global Issues ◽  
Policy Evolution ◽  
Sociocultural Background ◽  
Aid Policy

This paper presents pertinent aspects of the foreign aid policy of the State of Qatar as a Muslim emerging donor with rising soft power. The study traces and explains the evolution of Qatar’s Foreign Aid Policy (QFAP) and identifies the various critical milestones of the policy that has been successfully transformed from a small Gulf Emirate into one of the leading players on both regional and global issues including aid giving. Although, Qatar’s motivation for aid giving is quite similar to the global setting, the country’s sociocultural background and values play a vital in shaping and inspiring its aid policy. As QFAP is closely tied to the country’s active foreign policy agenda, political and security motives are heavily reflected in the country’s aid practices. In collecting both primary and secondary data this study used various qualitative methods such as face-to-face interviews with key Qatari officials and scrutinized official state documents and quoted speeches, particularly of past and present Emirs as well as other archival sources.

Give or Take: Foreign Aid and Foreign Policy Substitutability

2002 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
GLENN PALMER ◽  
SCOTT B. WOHLANDER ◽  
T. CLIFTON MORGAN
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Foreign Aid

Feminist Foreign Policy: Contributions and Lessons

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacqueline Hicks
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Development Assistance ◽  
Gender Mainstreaming ◽  
Rapid Review ◽  
Policy Advocacy ◽  
High Profile ◽  
Defence Policy ◽  
Context Specific ◽  
Implementation Plans ◽  
Policy Arenas

A relatively small number of countries have an explicit “Feminist Foreign Policy” (FFP). Those most often cited are Sweden, Canada, France, Mexico, and Spain. In theory, an FFP moves beyond gender mainstreaming in foreign development assistance to include: (1) a wider range of external actions, including defence, trade and diplomacy (2) a wider range of marginalised people, not just women. Within foreign development assistance, it implies a more coherent and systematically institutionalised approach to gender mainstreaming. In practice, those countries with an explicit FFP implement it in different ways. Canada currently focuses on development assistance, France on development assistance and formal diplomacy, Sweden more comprehensively covers the trade and defence policy arenas. Mexico and Spain are yet to produce detailed implementation plans. There is increasing academic interest in FFP, but most analyses found during the course of this rapid review focus on narrative content of policies rather than impact. Policy advocacy and advice is provided by several high-profile advocacy organisations. National government agencies in Sweden, France and Canada have produced some evaluations of their FFP, but the evidence is weak. There are many international institution evaluations of gender mainstreaming for many different sectors that are context-specific.

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