Is US Humanitarian Aid Based Primarily on Need or Self-Interest?
The United States has made repeated public commitments to provide humanitarian aid based on need alone. However, some scholars suggest that US self-interest is a stronger predictor of US humanitarian assistance than need. We examine the tension between self-interest and need by studying the allocati...
| Publicado en: | International Studies Quarterly Vol. 58; no. 4; pp. 839 - 855 |
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