France's Diplomatic Power and its Aid Policy toward its Former Colonies

Research Project

Project/Area Number	24530186
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Multi-year Fund
Section	一般
Research Field	International relations
Research Institution	Doshisha Women's College of Liberal Arts
Principal Investigator	TORIKATA Yuko 同志社女子大学, 現代社会学部, 准教授 (60467503)
Project Period (FY)	2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
Project Status	Completed (Fiscal Year 2014)
Budget Amount *help	¥4,420,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,020,000) Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000) Fiscal Year 2013: ¥1,690,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥390,000) Fiscal Year 2012: ¥1,690,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥390,000)
Keywords	フランス外交 / 国際関係史 / 外交史 / 対米同盟 / 援助外交 / 援助 / 脱植民地化 / アメリカ
Outline of Final Research Achievements	In order to examine how France exercised its influence on international affairs despite the reality of its national strength. This research focuses on France’s aid policy toward its former colonies. Because these countries backed up France in international organizations such as the UN and helped reinforce its diplomatic power. In providing its assistance to these countries, France often attempted to use multilateral institutions, to which it sent a lot of its high-ranking officials who enthusiastically exerted their influence on the process of distributing funds to third world countries and the creation of institutional rules for economic assistance.