228 Pages
by Routledge

226 Pages
by Routledge

228 Pages
by Routledge

This book examines the international development policies of five East Central European new EU member states, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia. These countries turned from being aid recipients to donors after the turn of the millennium in the run-up to EU accession in 2004. The book explains the evolution subsequent to EU accession and current state of foreign aid... Read more

1. Introduction 2. Theoretical Framework 3. The "Global Consensus" on Foreign Aid 53 4. New development policies in the ECE countries 5. The role of external actors 6. Non-governmental organizations 7. The domestic politics of aid 8. Conclusions

Biography

Balazs Szent-Ivanyi holds a lecturer position at Aston University in Birmingham, and is also an Associate Professor at Corvinus University, Budapest.

Simon Lightfoot is a senior lecturer in European Politics at the University of Leeds, UK

"The book is thoughtfully organised, well-written and provides relevant material on an important aspect of supranationalism and adaption to international organisations—which is studied almost under in vitro conditions. In addition to the authors’ plea for further research on the stance of CEECs vis-à-vis the issue of policy coherence, it would also be important to expand the geographic scope by including cases such as Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania—countries which were not able to build on previously established frames of development cooperation—and to relate the findings to other studies on (post-accession) Europeanisation in light of the EU’s post-Brexit crisis as a global actor."

STEFAN GÄNZLEUniversity of Agder, Europe-Asia Studies