The Political Discourse on International Aid (PDF)

Thesis (M.A.) from the year 2019 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: International development, grade: 30 lode, , language: English, abstract: The goal of the study is to identify and analyse the concept of international aid and political discourse on it. It compares foreign aid with theory of neocolonialism. What does development aid have to do with the theory of neocolonialism? Is international aid a mean to conduct neocolonialism? Should international aid be called aid?

Chapter 1 is introductory and describes multiple theories related to colonialism and neocolonialism, such as eurocentrism, orientalism, imperialism, globalisation post-colonialism and others. Chapter 2 presents a great array of speeches, interviews
and other documents from recent years which raise the topic of international aid. Chapter 3 consists of 2 parts. Part one focuses of the concept of international aid.

The second part explains what political discourse has to do with neocolonialism. It examines the words of politician in the light of neocolonial theories. It investigates if international aid is really an aid. At the end conclusions are drawn. The analysis of multiple speeches interviews and documents showed that there is a great amount of similarities in those to 2 concepts. Indeed, international aid might be a way to conduct neocolonialism.