This book examines the evolution of foreign aid policy in Japan and South Korea, analyzing policy rationales, institutional developments and policy choices. The book searches for new strategies of international development cooperation in an uncertain world. The book compares two countries’...

Why foreign aid? Setting the stage -- Aid's purposes: a brief history -- The United States: Morgenthau's puzzle -- Japan: the rise and decline of an "aid superpower" -- France: rank et rayonnement -- Germany: a "middle of the roader" -- Denmark: the humane internationalist -- Conclusions and...