The moral politics of foreign aid

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作者
Hattori, T [1 ]
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[1] CUNY Herbert H Lehman Coll, New York, NY 10468 USA
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10.1017/S0260210503002298
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D81 [国际关系];
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030207 ;
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In what sense can foreign aid be understood as a moral practice? Is there any empirical substance to this claim? This article reconceptualises a type of foreign aid in which this claim is most plausible - grants by multilateral aid agencies - as a contemporary form of beneficence, a trans-historical phenomenon. Drawing on Aristotelian virtue ethics, it identifies such donations as a moral practice with deep roots in Western history. This analysis substantiates a view of the relations between states that goes beyond the simple notion of reciprocity emphasised by neoliberals. It concludes with the political implications of identifying donor states with moral distinction.
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