Sue Chu

Capstone- 7
September 27, 2016
6 Source Analysis
MLA/APA/AMA Citation:
Lancaster, C. (2008). Foreign aid: Diplomacy, development, domestic politics.
University of Chicago Press.
Source Validation: This is a book by Carol Lancaster, an associate professor at
Georgetown University and director of the Mortara Center for International Studies.
How did you find this source?: I found this book on Google Scholar and Amazon.
Intended audience: This book can be used by scholars in foreign affairs as a source for
the theme and structure foreign aid and comparative politics.
What arguments/topics does this source discuss?:
This source is a follow up research aimed to clarify my understanding of the
current state of U.S. and Japan foreign aid policies. In chapter three, the foregin
asssistance in thethe united sates is a ssubcabinet level agency.as a result USAID
suffured a political issue of hhaving more responsiblities than power. As the U.S.
government globalizes, domestic departments form their own development
programs often excluding USAID. The organization also gets blamed on the
results of diplomatic programs, which are apart from humanitarian programs. The
United States foreign aid programs are sprouting randomly in different places of
the government.
As for Japan in the new century is affected by both gaiatsu, external influences
like the U.S. and naiatsu, internal pressures. The views of society on foreign aid is
contributing to the low priority of charity is different than western countries.
Japan has a traditional view of looking out for friends and families in need, so the
concepts of private charity and public money are not embedded in Japans
political ideals. Furthermore, as previous research have said, Japans policy is
divided from implementation. Japans government is called the Diet, a

constitutional monarchy and bicameral parliament. The parliament plays a limited

role in policies, while the more powerful bureaucracy makes decisions.
Minimum 3 quotes, paraphrases, summaries of source text that seem likely to be
helpful in future writing:
Private philanthropy was not the tradition in Japan that it was in other parts of
the world. Noe were there the appeals to Christian duty or working class
solidarity to with the poor to justify such obligations as there were in a number of
western countries.
The US government does not publish data on the foreign aid expenditures of its
domestic departments, but available adat suggest that such expenditures may have
amounted to at least $500 million per year by 2000, above aid funding from
foreign affairs agencies.
A greater emphasis in aid-giving on development and related issues, a broader
basis of domestic support for development aid, drawing together and unexpected
coalition of the christian right and the secular left and possibly leading to higher
aid levels over time.