International norms and global AIDS funding: How domestic conditions influenced foreign aid policy choice in the U.S., France, and Japan

Young Soo Kim, Purdue University

Abstract

All member countries of the Development Assistance Committee (DAC) in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) have converged rapidly in their decision to provide foreign aid for global response to Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (HIV/AIDS). What did motivate this convergent behavior of foreign aid policy in global AIDS funding? More interestingly, despite the convergent AIDS funding decisions, there are remarkable local (at the state level) variations in the pattern of funding by each country. In other words, there are local distinctions with respect to the level of policy dedication to global fight against AIDS. I argue that World Health Organization (WHO) played a critical role as an international norms entrepreneur in developing and proliferating norms of global response to AIDS. In addition, I claim that the idiosyncrasies in the pattern of the funding are based on distinctive domestic conditions constructed by the number of AIDS-infected, the role and attitude of media and civil society. I conduct case studies of the U.S., France, and Japan, each of which has different domestic contexts, in order to figure out how the domestic conditions shaped the different foreign aid policy choice of global HIV/AIDS.

Degree

Ph.D.

Advisors

Clark, Purdue University.

Subject Area

International Relations|Political science

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