Ellen changed a CV.
Ellen started following the work of Maoz Rosenthal, Binghamton University, Political Science.
Ellen started following the work of Pranay Sinha, University Of Birmingham, International Development Department.
Graduate Student, Political Science
Thesis Title: Donor Competition and Cooperation in Foreign Aid Allocation
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Benjamin O. Fordham
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About
Ellen’s research concentrates on international relations and foreign policy. Of particular interest are issues related to trade, foreign direct investment and foreign aid as well as the process through which domestic factors influence foreign policy decisions in these areas. Her first publication, “Commerce and Imagination: The Sources of Concern about International Human Rights in the United States Congress” (with Benjamin Fordham) is forthcoming in International Studies Quarterly. Ellen has taught courses on the political economy of US foreign policy and international foreign aid programs.
Ellen is currently finishing her dissertation: “Donor Competition and Cooperation in Foreign Aid Allocation.” This project seeks to explain why and when donor states use their foreign aid budgets to compete or cooperate with each other to gain influence in recipient states. The study posits that aid is a foreign policy tool used to move recipients’ foreign policies closer to donors. Donors use their aid budgets to compete with each other when their policy preferences are further from each other than they are from the recipient. They will cooperate when they are on the same side of the recipient in policy space. This simple argument can predict different responses between the same set of donors. This adds a more nuanced view to traditional models of foreign aid and generates interesting predictions for the current era of emerging aid powers.
