| ID | 136423 |
| Title Proper | Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan as donors of humanitarian aid |
| Other Title Information | has the diversification of aid channels and donors reached southern Eurasia? |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Cordier, Bruno De |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | Over the last decade, Azerbaijan and especially Kazakhstan have become the largest individual donors after Russia of official humanitarian aid among the republics of the former U.S.S.R. This article examines the quantities, channels, and underlying dynamics and interests of this aid and compares it with the wider global trend of the emergence or re-emergence of aid donors outside the dominant OECD bloc. Azerbaijan and especially Kazakhstan want to translate their new economic capacity into political clout and international and regional initiative, including different ways and channels of soft power like aid. They thereby eclectically use elements, policy concepts, and institutions of the international aid system and attach aid to a conditionality that is not related to governance, human rights, or democratization, but to diplomatic and economic returns. |
| `In' analytical Note | Central Asia and the Caucasus Vol.15, No.4; 2014: p.107-118 |
| Journal Source | Central Asia and the Caucasus 2014-12 15, 4 |
| Standard Number | Human Rights |