ABSTRACT
Robert Wood outlines the aid regime’s evolution, its current status and its future. Like Tisch and Wallace’s contention that the Western model of assistance remains intact following the end of the Cold War, the same is true for Wood’s overarching aid regime. The context in which foreign assistance programs operate has changed significantly in recent years. The most notable change is the end of the Cold War which had served as the ideological paradigm of many aid programs. The end of the Cold War also greatly increased the number of nation-states seeking assistance, and aid flows shifted somewhat toward these states at the expense of others. It seems paradoxical that as the number of donors and recipients increase, with ever more complex and ambiguous motives and objectives, the regime grows stronger and tighter around the choices of recipient governments.
