Japan's Foreign Aid Policy: A Capacity for Leadership?

The choice for multilateralism: Foreign aid and American foreign policy

Why do governments choose multilateralism? We examine a principalagent model in which states trade some control over the policy for greater burden sharing. The theory generates observable hypotheses regarding the reasons for and the patterns of support and opposition to multilateralism. To focus our study, we analyze support for bilateral and multilateral foreign aid giving in the US. Using new...

origins of armenia’s foreign policy and its foreign policy towards iran

foreign policy takes root from complicated matters. however, this issue may be more truth about armenia. although the new government of armenia is less than 20 years, people of this territory are the first ones who officially accepted christianity. in very past times, these people were a part of great emperors like iran, rome, and byzantium.armenia is regarded as a nation with a privileged hist...

Proposal for a Foreign Language Drafting Aid

We examine a range of existing authoring aids (understood in the widest sense), from full-scale NLG to a new type of interactive MT. All of these depend on an independently available meaning representation, either a language-neutral formal model or a parallel text in another language. When no such meaning representation is available, however, current authoring aids can offer little more than wo...

Policy Capacity for Health Reform: Necessary but Insufficient; Comment on “Health Reform Requires Policy Capacity”

Forest and colleagues have persuasively made the case that policy capacity is a fundamental prerequisite to health reform. They offer a comprehensive life-cycle definition of policy capacity and stress that it involves much more than problem identification and option development. I would like to offer a Canadian perspective. If we define health reform as re-orienting the health system from acut...

Identity and Foreign Policy