Eleventh Global Studies Conference

Abstract

This paper explores the relationship between international cooperation and the politicisation of aid in the context of Afghanistan in the post 9/11 era. The study focuses on how the aid given to Afghanistan has been accompanied by the political interests of the major powers and therefore violating the core principles of humanitarianism, i.e. humanity, impartiality, neutrality, and independence. This research explains the areas which are of high priority, extremely vulnerable, and have been neglected since 2001. As a result of politicisation, the foreign aid did not produce the expected results even after the long financial and military cooperation of the international community in Afghanistan. The research is based on both primary and secondary sources of information. The secondary sources are collected from books, reports, and documents. The primary sources of information include the UNDP reports, Government reports of different countries, and the Millennium Development Goals report of Afghanistan and interviews with the Afghan Ambassador to India.