The impact of international institutions on foreign aid delivery tactics
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[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-COLUMBIA AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Do international institutions influence state behavior? Do the events that take place within international organizations affect foreign policy behavior of advanced democracies? I argue that international institutions play an essential role in global politics and the events that take place within international organizations significantly shape the foreign policy of advanced industrial democracies. I find that international institutions influence both the amount and the type of foreign assistance that developing countries receive from donor states. By focusing on the United Nations, I find strong empirical support for my assertions. More specifically, I find that donor states carefully manipulate the composition of their foreign aid based on the information they receive from international organizations like the UN General Assembly or the UN human rights bodies. Moreover, I find that within advanced industrial democracies, major power donors are more inclined to use foreign assistance program to meet their vested political goals compared to their less powerful counterparts. Using newly available, disaggregated aid data, this project answers some of the long-standing questions that link international organizations and foreign aid commitments.
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