Analysis And Comments On Development Of EU's Foreign Aid

Foreign aid is a very important political and economic practice in international relations after the Second World War with participators as sovereignties, international organizations either official or nonofficial, social groups and even individuals. European Union (shown as EU below), as the most integrated international organization, has much specialty in its foreign aid model and development course. Since the 1990s' EU and its member countries accelerated its integration of foreign aid resources and took an irreplaceable role in foreign aid field. They achieved great success in "policy coherence in foreign aids" and provide valuable experience for foreign aid resources integration.This essay falls into five parts as below:Part one, Introduction. In this part, writer talked about the sense of choosing this subject; Then writer defined some definitions mentioned in this essay; Third, writer described the status quo of investigations on this subject and pointed out the advantages and limitations of this essay.Part two, Introduction of the situation of the international foreign aids and an very important theory "policy coherence in foreign aid".Part three, Study about EU foreign aid histories. In this part, EU foreign aid histories before the 1990s' is divided into two stages, initial stage, from the 1950's to the 1970s' and the developing stage, from the middle 1970s' to the beginning of the 1990s'. Here EU foreign aid histories will be introduced to readers from its foreign aid geographical scope, amounts, distribution and so on.Part four, State of EU foreign aid's new development after the 1990s'. First, writer started from the main activities of EU's foreign aid and introduced EU's foreign aid activities according to different areas. Then writer discussed about signs of EU's foreign aid resource integration acceleration after the 1990s' for the following comments' use.Part five, Comments about EU's foreign aid resource integration after the 1990s'. This is the hard core of this essay and the acceleration of EU's foreign aid resource integration was analyzed and commented in three approaches. First, background analysis, both in external and internal. Second, Description and Comments of significances of EU's foreign aid. Writer believes that the development of EU's foreign aid helped both EU itself and the development of international foreign aid. Writer listed three main senses for EU's development and also three experiences that could be drawn on by international foreign aid practices. Third, obstacles in front of EU's foreign aid,which are mainly as interest conflicts, system limitations and the effect of developmentintegration.