| Summary: | Now that the cold war has ended, it is unclear as to the motivations that underpin the aid policies of the key members of the Development Assistance Committee (DAC). During the cold war many reasons helped to motivate aid to African countries - such as political belief or the belief that they had humane responsibility to provide aid. How much has the transformation of the international system influenced motivation, and what are the implication of these motivations for sub-Saharan Africa in particular and the larger international system in general? This text aims to assess the adequacy of theories on the motivational question. It argues that despite a multiplicity of issues pushing and pulling foreign policy, the flow of development to sub-Saharan Africa has recurrent patterns, which could be better understood by comparing the primary propositions of the dominat theories of international relations on why states behave the way they do.
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