TITLE:
Dilemmas and Rigors of the International Development Cooperation Dimension
AUTHORS:
Constantin C. Hritcan
KEYWORDS:
International Development Cooperation, International Cooperation, Foreign Policy, International Development, Aid Coordination, Development Cooperation
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Social Sciences,
Vol.10 No.13,
December
30,
2022
ABSTRACT: The research Dilemmas and rigors of the International Development Cooperation
Dimension aims to bring to the surface directions and trends of development
in the field of international development cooperation. Through a literature-based
approach, using databases from the Web of Sciences and Scopus platforms, you
will extract the most relevant specialized papers so that we can identify and
analyze the rigors and dilemmas of the topic. Starting from the premise that
new dilemmas and challenges appear daily, which urge us to new research topics,
I believe that the approaches and debates of specialists in the context of
policies and programs implemented globally, regarding the field of
international development cooperation, offer us a critical analysis on the way
of operating and implementing policies/programs. Identifying a significant number
of specialized researches (which are constantly growing), shows us how much the
topic has developed lately, becoming a field of trends where uncertainties
regarding the effectiveness and efficiency of programs and policies regularly
force us to move from one paradigm to another, enthusiastically praising what
seems new and performant, on the one hand, and on the other hand strongly
challenging negligence, uncertainty, and lack of specialists. Unfortunately,
these common approaches, from academia, are nothing more than findings, which
are often dusted off by the mists of time. Living in a time when the emerging
challenges are increasingly accentuated, this theoretical-applicative research
aims to contribute to the development of the above topic. Analyzing the main
topics debated at a global level, we will be able to easily establish the
deficiencies identified by the specialists in the field. This research gathers
its database with the help of WoS and Scopus databases, having as its main
research tool meta-analyses, and the main conclusions are gathered with the
help of SWOT analysis. The reason I have chosen this research topic is to
emphasis the importance of international development cooperation, as well as to
emphasis the need to develop a “Modus operandi1” system, in terms of policies and programs. My aim
is to help uncover
the main factors that characterize and influence decision-making in the field
of International Development Cooperation, in order to help the experts in the
field to achieve their intended objectives. Once the results are gathered, we
will be able to easily identify what are the problems encountered by
specialists in the field, as well as new research niches that are still
unexplored. The results obtained can be particularly useful, both to
specialists and to those interested who want to approach new topics with the
theme of international development cooperation, because with the help of the
elaborated model, new research perspectives can be easily recognized.