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ИМЭМО им. Е.М. Примакова РАН</institution><country>Россия</country></aff><aff xml:lang="en"><institution>MGIMO University; &#13;
Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations, Russian Academy of Sciences</institution><country>Russian Federation</country></aff></aff-alternatives><pub-date pub-type="collection"><year>2024</year></pub-date><pub-date pub-type="epub"><day>21</day><month>10</month><year>2024</year></pub-date><volume>15</volume><issue>2</issue><issue-title>Старый континент в новом мире</issue-title><fpage>109</fpage><lpage>133</lpage><permissions><copyright-statement>Copyright &amp;#x00A9; Посаженникова А.А., 2024</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2024</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">Посаженникова А.А.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Posazhennikova A.A.</copyright-holder><license xml:lang="ru" license-type="creative-commons-attribution" xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" xlink:type="simple"><license-p>Данная работа распространяется под лицензией Creative Commons Attribution 4.0.</license-p></license><license xml:lang="en" license-type="creative-commons-attribution" xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" xlink:type="simple"><license-p>This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.</license-p></license></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="https://www.sravpol.ru/jour/article/view/1689">https://www.sravpol.ru/jour/article/view/1689</self-uri><abstract><p>Статья посвящена содействию развитию как инструменту внешней политики стран Бенилюкс – Бельгии, Нидерландов и Люксембурга. Ставится следующий исследовательский вопрос: соответствуют ли практические шаги государств Бенилюкс публичным заявлениям, где содействие развитию упоминается как инструмент «мягкой силы», или же специфика подходов к данному направлению скорее отражает другие цели, в частности, налаживание экономически выгодного сотрудничества с развивающимися странами? Наряду с анализом международных статистических данных, социологических опросов и текстов официальных документов, исследование опирается на историко-описательный и историко-генетический методы, необходимые для рассмотрения эволюции подходов трех государств. Теоретико-методологическое наполнение работы составляют аналитические категории «малого государства» и «средней державы», а также концепция «мягкой силы». Автор приходит к выводу, что подходы стран Бенилюкс к содействию развитию различаются и характеризуются комплексностью и изменчивостью во времени. Стремление к экономической выгоде может служить объяснением по крайней мере некоторым географическим и функциональным приоритетам данной политики – выделению в качестве ключевых партнеров государств, где расположены представительства компаний стран Бенилюкс, или специализации на сферах содействия развитию, где может быть обеспечено вовлечение этих компаний. Это стремление наиболее явно прослеживается в подходе Нидерландов, в то время как для Люксембурга, по-видимому, важнее функция «мягкой силы», позволяющая позиционировать себя в качестве «щедрого» донора и «ответственного» члена международного сообщества. В отличие от Люксембурга, в Нидерландах и Бельгии в связи с сомнениями в эффективности содействия развитию и его секьюритизацией имеет место тенденция к снижению объема выделяемых средств (за исключением 2015 и 2022 гг.); тем не менее, на фоне продолжающихся общественных дискуссий содействие развитию сохраняет свою актуальность как «мягкая сила» в отношении стран Глобального Юга.</p></abstract><trans-abstract xml:lang="en"><p>The article discusses the use of development assistance as a foreign policy tool by the Benelux countries, namely Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg. The paper aims to answer the question whether the development assistance provided by the Benelux states corresponds to their political statements which cite this policy area as a soft power instrument, or the three approaches to development assistance rather reflect other goals, e.g. beneficial economic cooperation with developing countries. The article analyzes international statistical data, sociological surveys and official development assistance-related documents, using qualitative historical and descriptive as well as genealogical and historical methods to trace the evolution of the three countries’ approaches. The concepts of small and middle powers, to which the Benelux countries belong, and the concept of soft power constitute the theoretical and methodological framework of the research. The article concludes that the Benelux countries’ approaches to development assistance are different, complex and changeable. The pursuit of economic goals helps explain at least some of the three states’ geographic and functional priorities, which translate into defining countries where Benelux’ companies are situated as key partners or specializing in the development assistance areas where these companies can be involved. This pursuit is most clearly evident in the Dutch approach, while Luxembourg seems to value soft power function more as it enhances the country’s image as one of the most generous donors and a responsible member of the international community. Unlike Luxembourg, the Netherlands and Belgium show a downward trend in the amount of assistance allocated (with the exception of 2015 and 2022), amid doubts about the effectiveness of development assistance and securitization of this area; however, the ongoing public debates keep relevant the use of development assistance as soft power  vis-à-vis the countries of the Global South.</p></trans-abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>Бельгия</kwd><kwd>Люксембург</kwd><kwd>малое государство</kwd><kwd>мягкая сила</kwd><kwd>Нидерланды</kwd><kwd>помощь развитию</kwd><kwd>содействие международному развитию</kwd><kwd>средняя держава</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>Belgium</kwd><kwd>development assistance</kwd><kwd>international development cooperation</kwd><kwd>Luxembourg</kwd><kwd>middle power</kwd><kwd>Netherlands</kwd><kwd>small state</kwd><kwd>soft power</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front><back><ref-list><title>References</title><ref id="cit1"><label>1</label><citation-alternatives><mixed-citation xml:lang="ru">Буторина О.В. 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